17-024 Garand Picture of the Day - Army Day Parade 1942

[Mark in Rochester]

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.