As of March 20, 1918, 297,000 US troops had been sent to fight in World War I.
SOURCE: US Army in the World War, 1917-1919: Organization of American Expeditionary Forces. Historical Division Department of the Army, Washington, D.C. 1948
By the end of May 1918 the number of US troops in Europe was 600,000.
SOURCE: Records of the Great War, Vol. VI, ed. Charles F. Horne, National Alumni 1923
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-As of these Americans, about 117,000 United States soldiers were killed during WWI, out of the 4,272,500 deployed. There were also 204,000 wounded - with a casualty rate of 8% for the killed/wounded combined.
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World War I was the first major conflict that brought the world together. 2.7 million young men entered the war through the draft.
There were 16.1 million soldiers that served in the military during world war 1. In the US 500,000 soldiers volunteered.
After the enactment of the Selective Service Act, 2.8 million men (who were U.S. citizens) were drafted in World War I.
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In the United States, about two million men volunteered for World War I.
Approximately 16 million US servicemen fought in WW2. About 400,000 men died.
1: Frank Buckles of West Virginia is the only surviving American WWI vet.
300,000 soldiers fought in world war one,62,000 died leaving 228,000 soldiers