13,000 Union Soldiers died of disease and malnutrition at the Confederate prison in Andersonville, Georgia
The biggest killer of the American Soldiers and all the other nations' soldiers was disease, exposure, hunger and the worldwide influenza that killed more people in the war than wounds and fatal blows. I don't remember what they called that influenza that killed millions around the world but it wiped out a lot of the troops and the European civilian's. It hit all the continents from what I understand.
Answer this question… Soldiers infected in one country carried the infection to other countries.
Spanish Influenza. It actually started before the war ended. The pandemic started around June 1918 and the war ended Nov 1918. By the time soldiers returned home, the flu had already killed millions.
During the winter in Valley Forge, food and supplies were scarce. A majority of the soldiers had a lack of, or improper, clothing for the winter weather. When spring arrived, bringing warmer weather, disease struck the army. Influenza, typhus, typhoid, and dysentery wiped out two-thirds of the soldiers.
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13,000 Union Soldiers died of disease and malnutrition at the Confederate prison in Andersonville, Georgia
Of the United States soldiers who died in Europe, half of them fell to the influenza virus and not to the enemy. An estimated 43,000 servicemen who were mobilized for WWI died of influenza.
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The biggest killer of the American Soldiers and all the other nations' soldiers was disease, exposure, hunger and the worldwide influenza that killed more people in the war than wounds and fatal blows. I don't remember what they called that influenza that killed millions around the world but it wiped out a lot of the troops and the European civilian's. It hit all the continents from what I understand.
it made most of the soldiers sick
Answer this question… Soldiers infected in one country carried the infection to other countries.
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Often through malnutrition and infectious diseases, Russian soldiers in German camps - and vice versa - and Allied soldiers in Japanese camps much more so than British and American soldiers in German camps. German prisoners of war were often shipped to the US and put to work there on farms and in factories.
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The Spanish inlfuenza was an especially virulent virus that spread across the world in 1918, killing many millions of people. It was likely carried around the globe by soldiers returning from World War I (1914-1918). Both soldiers and civilians may have been made more susceptible by malnutrition -- there were famines in many of the countries where the war was waged. As many as 500 million people became infected, and between 50 and 100 million died.