U.S. battle deaths
World War II, 1940-1945 .............................. 291,557
Civil War (all forces), 1861-1865 .................. 214,938
World War I, 1917-1918 .................................. 53,402
U.S. deaths in battles, disasters
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Vietnam War, 1964-1975 ................................ 47,410
Korean War, 1950-1953 .................................. 33,686
Revolutionary War, 1775-1783 ......................... 4,435
War of 1812, 1812-1815 ................................... 2,260
Mexican War, 1846-1848 .................................. 1,733
Indian Wars, 1817-1898 ................................... 1,000
Spanish-American War, 1898 .............................. 385
Persian Gulf war, 1991 ......................................... 148
U.S. natural disasters Storms
Hurricane, Galveston, Texas, 1900 ................... 6,000
Hurricane, South Florida, 1928 ......................... 1,836
Hurricane David, 1979 ...................................... 1,100
Floods
Johnstown, Pa., 1889 ........................................ 2,209
Lake Okeechobee, Fla., 1928 ............................ 2,000
Earthquakes
San Francisco, 1906 ............................................. 700
Northridge, Calif., 1994 ........................................... 61
Recent anti-U.S. terrorism *
Pan Am Flight 103, Scotland, 1988 ...................... 270
U.S. Marine barracks, Beirut, 1983 ...................... 241
U.S. embassies, Kenya and Tanzania, 1998 ......... 224
Federal building, Oklahoma City, 1995 .................. 168
U.S. Embassy, Beirut, 1983 .................................... 63
USS Cole, 2000 ....................................................... 17
World Trade Center, 1993 .......................................... 6
* The State Department regards any terrorist incident that kills American citizens as anti-U.S., but many foreign nationals also have died in these incidents.
Sources: State Department, news accounts, Department of Veterans Affairs, World Almanac
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