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Nearly 700 men.
The difficulty with maintaining neutrality for America during WW I was that America was doing business with England, and Germany was attacking the American shipping.
Throughout the war the number of American Troops continued to grow in response to the position of the war. By August 1918, there were nearly 1,500,000 American troops in the European Campaign.
They didn't fare well. Discrimination was through out the services and they weren't allow to do many things. The one group that comes to mind is the Tuskegee airmen in WW2. They formed 332nd Fighter Group and the 477th Bombardment Group of the Army Air Force. Their nickname was Red Tails. Although they trained with the North American B-25 Mitchell bombers they never saw combat. These men were the first African American military aviators in the United States armed forces. During the war black Americans were subject to Jim Crow laws, were segregated in the military.
The only figure located was nearly 89,000 airmen died in the ENTIRE war. Suggest you look up casualties by battles in the Pacific. See related link below.