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Show 189,541 Yanks Killed in War, Costliest in U. S. History World War II has now taknn the lives of more American men in coir; but than the Civil war, previously the co.itlit.st in the nation's na-tion's history. Tlie army announced Thursday that l;j.i.701 soldiers had died in battle up to tlie beinnin of March and the navy reported its dead at 35,750. The aggregate ior the two services ser-vices since Pearl Harbor is 189,541 almost ISOOO above the 186,771 listed list-ed by the army and navy as killed or fatally wounded in the Union and Confederate armies and the Union navy during the Civil war. The number of Confederate navy dead Ls not available here but it is believed not to exceed the Union navy's losses. I The war between the states lasted four yeais, while figures for World War II dead cover on-' ly three years and about three months of fighting. The toll may , still be heavier by the time the missing are accounted for. In the 18 months of World War; I, army and navy figures show 53,559 lost their lives in combat, including 50,510 in the army. Secretary of War Stimson gave the fi cures on the number of soldiers sold-iers killed in reporting that the army's over-all casualties had now reached 780,043 on the basis of names compiled here through March 21 and reflecting activities up to the beginning of March. With the navy's total losses of 32,819 this pushed the total for both to 872,362 since the beginning begin-ning of the war. Thursday's report re-port represented an increase of 13,275 over last week's. |