At 11:00 this morning Greenwich Mean Time, World War I ended in Europe 100 years ago. American casualties were as follows:
Killed in combat: 53,513
Non-Hostile Deaths: 63,195 (This is largely due to the influenza epidemic of 1918 that killed up to 20 million people worldwide.)
Wounded: 204,002
Non-Hostile Deaths: 63,195 (This is largely due to the influenza epidemic of 1918 that killed up to 20 million people worldwide.)
Wounded: 204,002
The financial cost of World War I was $32 billion dollars in 1918 dollars. Adjusted for inflation the cost today would be $ 500 billion dollars.
The US was in World War I 1 year 7 months and five days.
Let us mow compare this to the Vietnam War with details as follows:
All deaths of US military personnel: 58,200
Wounded: 304,000
The Vietnam War cost the US government $1,770,000,000 in 20003 dollars including the massive cost of veteran healthcare. In 2018 dollars, This would be over $2 trillion dollars.
Including support of the French, the US was in the Vietnam war from 1955 to 1975; some 20 years.
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