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Show i Cost of War An unofficial estimate of the cost of the Korean War places the U.S. dead at more than 22,000, out of a total casualty list of 140,000 about $15,000,000,000 being spent to help pay for over 1,250,000 tons of artillery ammunition, over 1,8000,000,000,000 bullets and grenades, gren-ades, 800 tanks and 40,000 trucks, more than 2,000,000 shells for naval nav-al guns and hundreds of thousands of tons of bombs. It. also caused a general rearmament program, for which the Government has spent, to date, over $101,000,000,000. |