The “Last Kiss”, a photograph from World War II

It looks like, in general, the odds of surviving WWII were pretty good. 16 million US citizens served in some capacity during WWII, 400,000 died and 672,000 were wounded. I would’ve thought the death count would be much higher but it appears that ‘most’ of the men in that photo had a decent chance of making it back alive - assuming they weren’t in some high stakes battle. Search for ‘WWII by the numbers’ on this site for more stats: (http://www.wwiifoundation.org/students/wwii-facts-figures/)