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17-024 Garand Picture of the Day - Army Day Parade 1942
Last edited by Mark in Rochester; 01-24-2017 at 07:55 PM.
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West Point Cadets, 1942. You can't help wondering how many of them weren't among the living five years later.
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I was thinking the same thing. That was only a few months into the US entry into the war, and a lot of tough fighting ahead. Probably a good proportion of them unfortunately.
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Well true, but I want to examine the stampings on their rifles.
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Originally Posted by
Paul S.
West Point Cadets, 1942. You can't help wondering how many of them weren't among the living five years later.
this might give you some idea
Of the 58,000 Americans killed in action during a decade and a half in Vietnam, 273 were military academy graduates - less than half a percent. The four-year Korean War saw similar ratios for graduates.
Three West Point classes had battle death rates of more than 10 percent during World War II.
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Originally Posted by
Mark in Rochester
this might give you some idea
Of the 58,000 Americans killed in action during a decade and a half in Vietnam, 273 were military academy graduates - less than half a percent. . .
That statistic doesn't take the O.R. to officer ratio nor the academy graduate officer to other entry officer ratio into account. Mind you, I remember reading that the average age for all ranks within US Forces serving in Vietnam was 20 years and 6 months.
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