Gateway Pundit uses graphics to relate U. S. military deaths in Iraq to those of various battles from World War II and Korea. It’s also instructive to compare battles from earlier eras of history: the 16th-19th centuries for example: 30,000 dead at Marignan in two days in 1515, 38,000 dead in one day at Lepanto in 1571; or the 20th century, with 850,000 dead at Leningrad, 750,000 dead at Stalingrad, 719,000 at Moscow, 678,000 at Kiev, 306,000 at the Somme, 305,000 at Verdun, 148,000 at Okinawa, 132,000 at Normandy, 65,000 at Basra in the Iran-Iraq war, and on and on.
This chart, restricted to U.S. military deaths, is also revealing:
Wars ranked by total deaths
Rank War Years Deaths Deaths per Day Deaths per Population 1 American Civil War 1861–1865 625,000 599 1.988% (1860) 2 World War II 1941–1945 405,399 416 0.307% (1940) 3 World War I 1917–1918 116,516 279 0.110% (1920) 4 Vietnam War 1964–1973 58,151 26 0.003% (1970) 5 Korean War 1950–1953 36,516 45 0.002% (1950) 6 American Revolutionary War 1775–1783 25,000 11 0.899% (1780) 7 War of 1812 1812–1815 20,000 31 0.345% (1810) 8 Mexican-American War 1846–1848 13,283 29 0.057% (1850) 9 Philippine War 1899–1902 4,196 5 0.006% (1900) 10 Iraq War 2003–present 3,992 2.35 0.001% (2007
The death per day on the chart are only of Americans. The total deaths per day [US and Iraqi Civilian] have been rarely less than 20 per/day. See iraqbodycount.com. I wonder if the total deaths per day would change the rank order. I’ll bet Iraq would at least be fore 6th and 9th places. And maybe Vietnam.