how many wwii vets are still alive in the us?
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They are dying quickly—according to US Department of Veterans Affairs statistics, 389,292 of the 16 million Americans who served in World War II are alive in 2019.
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It's unclear exactly how many D-Day veterans are alive today. The survivors are now in their 90s or 100s. Of the 73,000 Americans who took part, just 30 are currently scheduled to come to France for this year's anniversary.
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According to Veterans Affairs Canada (VAC), 33,200 Second World War veterans are still alive in Canada, including 7,500 in British Columbia.
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As of this date The American War Library estimates that approximately 610,000 Americans who served on land in Vietnam or in the air over Vietnam between 1954 and 1975 are alive today. And approximately 164,000 Americans who served at sea in Vietnam waters are alive today.
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There are 18.8 million veterans living in the U.S. today, 7.6 percent of the population. They are predominantly male (91.6 percent), though the number of female veterans is on the rise.
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More than 2,400 U.S. service members and civilians died that day. Nearly half of them were aboard the USS Arizona, a battleship that sank under heavy strafing and bombing. There were just 335 survivors of the USS Arizona's crew. Just three are alive today.
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Jack Port, a 97-year-old American veteran of D-Day, stands on Utah beach, where he landed 75 years ago. ... Less than 4% of World War II veterans are still alive, and few can muster the strength to travel.
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The last living veteran of World War I was Florence Green, a British citizen who served in the Allied armed forces, and who died 4 February 2012, aged 110. ... There were approximately 9,750,103 military deaths during the conflict.
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The United States has approximately 1.3 million active-duty troops, with another 865,000 in reserve, one of the largest fighting forces of any country.
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The actual number of Japanese Americans affected by the bombings is unknown – although estimates put approximately 11,000 in Hiroshima city alone – but some 3,000 of them are known to have survived and returned to the U.S. after the war. ... The U.S. government provides no support to Japanese American hibakusha.
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How Many World War 2 Veterans are Still Alive in 2019? In World War 2, 16 million Americans served in the armed forces and according to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, less than 500,000 U.S. World War 2 veterans were still alive as of 2018.
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More than 400 Navajo had learned the code by the end of the war. None of the original 29 code talkers who invented the language are still alive. Chester Nez, the last surviving member of the original 29, died in 2014.
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Veteran Stories. Of 140,000 Kiwis who served in World War II, only about 600 remain today, and 12 have shared their stories. These are their memories, their experiences. This is living history.
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Last Vietnam vet on active duty to retire after 42 years of service: report. His story is the story of America in the last four decades. ... Rigby, the last Vietnam draftee still on active duty, stepped down in November, and he told the publication he does believe he's the last Vietnam vet still in uniform.
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Since the beginning of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq in 2001, over 1.9 million US military personnel have been deployed in 3 million tours of duty lasting more than 30 days as part of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) or Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) (Table 2.1).
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The United States is the largest operator of military bases abroad, with 38 "named bases" having active duty, national guard, reserve or civilian personnel as of September 30, 2014. Its largest, in terms of personnel, was Ramstein AB in Germany, with almost 9,200 personnel.
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But as the world commemorates the 75th anniversary of the Normandy invasion — D-Day, as it is termed by many — that memory is fading. ... Fewer than 1,000 D-Day veterans are believed to be alive, according to the National World War II Museum in New Orleans.