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/)
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