- There were 433 Medals of Honor awarded during World War 2, 219 of them were given after the receipiant's death
- From 6 June 1944 to 8 May 1945 in Europe the Allies had 200,000 dead and 550,000 wounded
- The youngest US serviceman was 12 year old Calvin Graham, USN. He was wounded in combat and given a Dishonorable Discharge for lying about his age.
- 6 bomber crewmen were killed for each one wounded
- 84 German Generals were executed by Hitler
- By D-Day, the Germans had 1.5 million railway workers operating 988,000 freight cars and used 29,000 per day
- Air attacks caused 1/3 of German Generals' deaths
Most members of the Waffen SS were not German.
The first German serviceman killed in the war was killed by the Japanese