how many world war two veterans are still alive in australia?
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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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Your going it make to 90. Your doing good for an old man! A report in 1999 shows Australian Vietnam Veterans life expectancy at 56 years. For US Vietnam Veterans it's about 66 years vs just about 78 years for non vets.
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Overall, of the people killed in World War II, one-third of them were military and the rest civilians. The Soviet Union (Russia) had by far the most casualties, both civilian and military.
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Most of these people live in Western and North Australia. The remaining full-bloods –estimated at 23 801 persons– are either in white employment or living in camps or missions in proximity to white settlements.
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CHOOSE COUNTRY The Gallipoli campaign was a costly failure for the Allies, with an estimated 27,000 French, and 115,000 British and dominion troops (Great Britain and Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, India, and Newfoundland) killed or wounded. Over half these casualties (73,485) were British and Irish troops.
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Earlier this year, the last US battle tanks left Europe's shores. But the allure of the tank still exists. Today the tank still remains a key part of most militaries. According to the International Institute for Strategic Studies there are 60,000 tanks in active service worldwide.
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The Commission's mandate thus entails the commemoration of some 1.7 million war dead of the Commonwealth in 150 countries. Of this number, roughly 925,000 have known graves and are buried in one of the Commission's 2,300 war cemeteries or plots or within some 20,000 other burial grounds worldwide.
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Frank Buckles, Last U.S. World War I Vet, Dies at 110. Frank Buckles, America's last surviving World War I veteran, has died at age 110. Frank Woodruff Buckles, the last known living American veteran of World War I, died on Sunday, February 27, three weeks after celebrating his 110th birthday.
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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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Frank Buckles, America's last surviving World War I veteran, has died at age 110. Frank Woodruff Buckles, the last known living American veteran of World War I, died on Sunday, February 27, three weeks after celebrating his 110th birthday.
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According to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, just under one million U.S. WWII veterans were alive in 2015. The men and women who fought in the war are now in their late 80s and 90s with an average of 362 dying every day.
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As six of the seven longest surviving veterans of the battle (Squadron Leader John Hart, Flight Lieutenant Archie McInnes, Flight Lieutenant Maurice Mounsdon, Air Vice-Marshal John Thornett Lawrence, Wing Commander Paul Farnes and Flight Lieutenant William Clark) died between June 2019 and May 2020 as of 8 May 2020, ...
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As of March 31, 2019, 145,844 were still alive, mostly in Japan. The government of Japan recognizes about 1% of these as having illnesses caused by radiation. Hibakusha are entitled to government support.
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NOTICE DATED 28 FEBRUARY 2019: 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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WWII vets fading from Canada's Remembrance Day services — but memories still vivid for some. Bennett was among the more than 1 million Canadians who served in World War II. As of March 31, just 61,300 of those veterans were still alive, with an average age of 92 years.
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30, 2020, 245 WWII veterans are expected to be lost each day.
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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.