Re: 100,000,000 Killed

"Dave Smith" <adavid.smith@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
news:47BCB37A.9DB08075@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Meldon wrote:
>
>> More than one hundred million is the approximate combined number of 
>> fallen
>> soldiers from both world wars. The vast majority were caucasian males.
>> Neither war directly threatened North America.
>
> Where do you get the 100 million figure. There were 8.5 million soldiers
> killed in WW I and  almost 6 million killed in WW II. Of those, there
were 
> 1,7
> million Japanese and 3.5 million Chinese casualties.  The war between 
> China
> and Japan started a few years before war broke out in Europe and it was
> another 2 years before Japan attacked the US.
>
> As for North Americans, they suffered among the lowest number of 
> casualties.

There were 25 million soldiers killed in WWII and 10 million in WWI.  The 
100 million figure includes civilian casualties.  Civilian casualties from

both world wars exceed the number of military casualties by a wide margin.