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A Nation’s Commitment

	Some 16 million Americans served in World War II.
	Close to 406,000 members of the Armed Forces were killed in the war.
	More than 671,000 members of the Armed Forces were wounded in the war.
	More than 265,000 women joined the Armed Forces during the war.
	Close to 1,000 African-Americans received commissions and pilot wings at the Tuskegee Army Airfield between 1942 and 1946.
	About 540 Navajos—many trained as code talkers—served in the U.S. Marine Corps as of 1945.
	Some 73 percent of the Armed Forces served overseas, spending an average of 16.2 months abroad.
	The United States spent an estimated $288 billion on World War II.
	Manufacturing increased 800 percent between 1941 and 1945.
	The United States was capable of building a military plane every 5 minutes and a new warship every day.
	By the end of the war, more than 85 million Americans had invested in war bonds.
	Of the last 10 U.S. presidents, 7 were WWII veterans.

Adapted from data compiled by the American Battle Monuments Commission.