Civilian casualties include deaths caused by strategic bombing, Holocaust victims, Japanese war crimes, population transfers in the Soviet Union, other War Crimes and deaths due to war related famine and disease. Ed. Japanese military losses were 2,120,000 including 1,740,000 in the war from 1937 to 1945 and 380,000 POW deaths after the surrender. Bericht des Bundesarchivs vom 28. Soviet attacks on Swedish merchant shipping from 1941–1944 cost the lives of 187 merchant seamen. In August 2009 the Polish Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) researchers estimated 150,000 Polish citizens were killed due to Soviet repression. 350,000 American women served in the military during World War II and 16 were killed in action. The Times on November 30, 1945. [96] The pro-Japanese Indian National Army lost 2,615 dead and missing. Total deaths from 1940 to 1953 due the war and the Soviet occupation were 287,000 (14% of the population). Ed. [4] The German Army historian Rüdiger Overmans published a study in 2000 that estimated German military dead and missing at 5.3 million. Demographic Research, Vol. • Tempest These totals do not include losses in the Italian Second Italo-Abyssinian War and Italian occupation from 1935–41. The BBC has provided background on the Colonial contributions to the British Empire war effort. [164], Military war dead reported by Rüdiger Overmans of 260,749 are included with Germany. According to the limited available information, many were Catholic or Lutheran. • Gothic Line Does not include military dead with Soviet (27,000) and German Armed Forces (8,000). [5] Overmans did not include an additional 215,000 deaths of Soviet citizens conscripted by Germany. In addition the civilian population was conscripted by the Japanese as forced laborers and were subjected to numerous mindless atrocities. Poland lost a total of 139,800 regular soldiers and 100,000 Polish resistance movement fighters during the war. National Archives Identifier:305191 Title: State Summary of War Casualties from World War II for Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard Personnel from Connecticut, 1946 Creator: Department of the Navy. Military casualties include deaths of regular military forces from combat as well as non-combat causes. At the end of the war many Ustaše collaborators were killed during the Bleiburg tragedy. "early Muslim conquests" (622–750, 128 years), Military losses in Asia were 900 in the 1942 Dutch East Indies campaign and 8,500 military POW deaths in Japanese captivity. [252] Sweden, the Swedish Baltic provinces, and Finland, together, with a population of only 2.5 million, lost some 350,000 dead during the war from all causes. The unprecedented scale and scope of the whole enterprise required the Japanese Navy to mobilize all available units: 10 battleships, 6 regular carriers, 4 auxiliary carriers, 18 heavy cruisers, 20 light cruisers, 112 destroyers, 65 submarines, and 2,274 combat planes. Number given is the sum of all deaths in battle recorded by writers during this time period, does not take into account civilian deaths, the actual number may be much greater. Cooperation in planning and in execution took place only at top levels. Werner Gruhl estimates the civilian death toll due to the war and Japanese occupation at 483,000 and an additional 50,000 deaths of Koreans conscripted in the Japanese military service. [60], During the Winter war of 1939–40 the Swedish Volunteer Corps served with the Finnish Armed Forces and lost 117 men in combat. [385] Holocaust Encyclopedia "Mosaic of Victims: Overview"", http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005149, "Florida Center for Instructional Technology, College of Education, University of South Florida, A Teachers Guide to the Holocaust", http://fcit.usf.edu/Holocaust/people/victims.htm, "United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Gaspar Correia (1558–1563) Lendas da Índia, 1864 edition, Academia Real das Sciencias de Lisboa, book II p.94. • Market Garden Civilian dead of 581,000, including 57,000 Jews. • Czechoslovakia [341] [55], Total war dead were 5,000[286] which included military losses of about 3,000 with the German Armed Forces and 200 in Belgian Army. A. 1939 Japanese population includes 1.7 million Japanese in China and Korea. [3] In August 2009 the Polish Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) researchers estimated Poland's dead at between 5.6 and 5.8 million. Merchant Marine are not included in United States Department of Defense total of 405,399 war dead. Meanwhile the Army had been deeply engaged in the protracted war in China, in which the main body of the Navy’s land-based air force and a small portion of its surface force had also taken part.