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  1. Aug 23, 2022 · World War II Records. For a comprehensive overview, see: Selected Finding Aids Related to NARA's World War II Holdings. African Americans. Records of Military Agencies Relating to African Americans from the Post-World War I Period to the Korean War, Reference Information Paper ; Casualty Lists and Missing. Missing Air Crew Reports (MACRs)

  2. May 15, 2024 · Unit 731 of the Imperial Japanese Army carried out horrific medical experiments on thousands of prisoners of war and civilians; men and women were subjected to chemical and biological agents and vivisected to survey the results.

  3. Pictures of World War II. The Second World War was documented on a huge scale by thousands of photographers and artists who created millions of pictures. American military photographers representing all of the armed services covered the battlefronts around the world.

  4. This report provides war casualty statistics. It includes data tables containing the number of fatalities and the number of wounded among American military personnel who served in principal wars and combat actions from 1775 to the present.

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  5. Only 42 US submarines were sunk in the Pacific, but 3,500 (22%) submariners were killed, the highest casualty rate of any American force in World War II. The force destroyed over half of all Japanese merchant ships, [69] totaling well over five million tons of shipping.

  6. Sep 2, 2022 · During World War II, thousands of Japanese Americans fought for the U.S. against Japan, now their story is finally being told.

  7. The U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, and Japan’s formal surrender on September 2 ended the war. An estimated 40,000,000 to 50,000,000 people died during World War II, including about 6,000,000 Jewish men, women, and children who died in the Holocaust.

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