how many wwii vets are left 2017?
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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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About 300,000 U.S. World War II veterans are alive in 2020, according to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), which has published projections of the number of living veterans from 2015 to 2045. WWII service members' numbers have dwindled from around 939,000 in 2015.
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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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No WWI veteran is known to be alive today. Five WWI veterans are known to have lived to an age of 110. One is known to have lived to an age of 111. The last U.S. WWI Veteran was Frank Buckles who died in 2011, at 110 years of age.
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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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As of 2015, more than 1,600 of those were still “unaccounted-for.” The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) of the U.S. Department of Defense lists 687 U.S. POWs as having returned alive from the Vietnam War. North Vietnam acknowledged that 55 American servicemen and 7 civilians died in captivity.
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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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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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About 300,000 US World War II veterans are alive 75 years after V-E Day | Pew Research Center.
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We know that this is the main age group who served during some time of the war. ... By a rough estimate there are about 275.000 German male veterans of WWII still alive in early 2017.
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Only a handful of the brave survivors of D-Day were able to attend this year's anniversary celebration on the Normandy coast, and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs estimates that 348 American World War II veterans are dying every day.
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Of the 600,000 Australians who served during WWII, fewer than 3000 of them are believed to be still alive. It's expected there will be no veterans left in a couple of years time.
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The list is long and the figures are high. After the war Germany POWs were forced to work in Poland to rebuild its cities for 2 years. Russia and China had the largest figures of casualties with 20million and 6million deaths each. South American nations were least affected by the war.
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More than 5.7 million Americans served during the Korean War, and today there are still approximately over 2.25 million Korean war veterans still alive.
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There are no US veterans of World War One alive. The last to die was Frank Buckles on 27 Feb 2011 at the age of 110. He was a resident of Charles Town, West Virginia. He drove an Army ambulance in France in 1918.
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There were a total of 1.3 million active duty military and more than 800,000 reserve forces as of September 2017, according to Defense Department personnel data.
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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.