Williams was a Marine flight instructor during WWII and a fighter pilot during the Korean War. Greenberg spent most of his time in Asia with the Air Force scouting locations for B-29 bases. Greenberg was the second player from MLB drafted. Hugh Mulcahy, a pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies, was the first.
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Approximately 40,000 US Airmen were killed during WW2, including accidents in the US.
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.
Tuskegee
Tuskegee Airmen .
Midway wiped out Japan's best NAVAL airmen.