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.