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kayell Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-27-04 08:53 PM
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10. US Iraq dead:wounded
Edited on Mon Sep-27-04 09:04 PM by kayell
to date.

1:6.68 (This is by far the highest ratio of wounded to dead in any major US conflict to date. The next highest was Korea at 1:4.1)see site below for ratios in other conflicts.

Dead 1052
Wounded 7032

Vietnam http://www.cwc.lsu.edu/cwc/other/stats/warcost.htm
1:3.6

Dead 58,168*
Wounded 153,303
*(figures a little different from earlier message, diff source, diff accounting methods?)
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