U.S. war casualties, including for current operations are as follows (wars prior to post-9/11 War on Terrorism operations also include total numbers of U.S. service members who served):
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:
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- Veterans for Common Sense Fact Sheet — U.S. Wars: Duration, Service Members, & Casualties (download this chart as a PDF)
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- Persian Gulf War deaths – by name (download as a sortable Excel spreadsheet)
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- Iraq and Afghanistan war deaths – by name; courtesy of iCasualties.org: http://icasualties.org/App/Fatalities
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- Current U.S. Department of Defense “Casualty Status” report: https://dod.defense.gov/News/Casualty-Status/
| DATA_SOURCES for this chart: | ||||||||
| 1) Congressional Research Service, “Instances of Use of United States Armed Forces Abroad, 1798-2018” (R42738), December 28, 2018: https://fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/R42738.pdf | ||||||||
| 2) Congressional Research Service, “U.S. Periods of War and Dates of Recent Conflicts” (RS21405), December 14, 2018: https://fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/RS21405.pdf | ||||||||
| 3) U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, “America’s Wars Fact Sheet,” May 2017: https://www.va.gov/opa/publications/factsheets/fs_americas_wars.pdf | ||||||||
| 4) U.S. Department of Defense, “Casualty Status as of 10 a.m. EDT April 25, 2019”: https://dod.defense.gov/News/Casualty-Status/ | ||||||||
