WWII
PROPOGANDA
Pearl Harbor was attacked by 353 Japanese fighters, bombers and torpedo planes in two waves, launched from six aircraft carriers. 2,402 Americans were killed and
1,282 wounded.
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Branch of Service
Killed in Action
Wounded in Action
Army/Army Air Corps 234,874 565,861
Navy 36,950 37,778
Marine Corps 19,733 67,207
Coast Guard 574 432
Total 292,131 671,278
During WWII, approximately 400,000 U.S. women served with the armed forces and more than 543 — lost
their lives as a result of the war, including 16 from
enemy fire.
President Franklin Roosevelt took charge and required all of the Japanese-Americans
living on the West Coast,
roughly 120,000 people, To be imprisoned in
internment camps.
More than 85 million Americans — half the population
— purchased bonds totaling
$185.7 billion.
Those incredible results, due to the mass selling efforts of helping to
finance the war, have never since been matched.
Between 1940 and 1945, the female percentage of the U.S.
workforce increased from 27 percent to nearly 37 percent, and by 1945 nearly one out of every four married women worked outside the home.
Tires were the first item to be rationed in January 1942 because supplies of natural
rubber were interrupted. Gasoline rationing proved an even better way to allocate
scarce rubber.
By 1943 one needed government issued ration coupons to purchase typewriters, coffee, sugar, gasoline, bicycles, clothing, fuel oil, silk, nylon, stoves, shoes,
meat, cheese, butter, lard, margarine, canned foods, dried
fruits, jam, and many other items. Some items—like new automobiles and appliances
were no longer made.
World War II is the deadliest military conflict
in history. Over 60 million or over 2.5% of the world’s population
of people was killed.
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