To date, coronavirus has killed more than 851,000 people worldwide, adding more than 183,000 in the United States.
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As horrific as this number may be, it is overshadowed by the global number of World War II casualties, estimated at between 70 and 85 million people, adding up to about 292,000 U.S. army members killed in action.
For the United States, World War II ended after 1364 days, five hours, and 44 minutes.As the anxieties of the coronavirus continue, it is vital that the same American courage and determination that ended our war opposed to the Axis force is triumphantly opposed to the killer virus.We don’t know when we’ll defeat our existing invisible enemy, but we will defeat him.
Winning World War II depended on the determined efforts of the 132 million Americans.More than 16.1 million Americans served in the U.S. Military, 73 percent of whom went abroad.
In addition to the 291,557 U.S. servicemen killed in combat, 670,846 wounded.
The war replaced América.Se joined the branches of the army and worked in the factories and took care of the gardens of victory at home.
Along the way, America has the arsenal of democracy.The generation that evolved for war, adding radars, computers, missiles and underwater phone lines, has continued to reshape our world.
But from the beginning, winning World War II was more than just an army victory.Millions of Americans have noticed the brutality up close. From the march of Batan’s death to the horrors of Nazi concentration camps such as Auschwitz and Buchenwald, the “greatest generation” facing evil on an almost unimaginable scale up close.They sought to win and build a bigger world after the war.
This hope and ambition for a bigger world allowed Americans to carry on and fueled their resolve. From the gut it was combined with hope.
Inevitably, the war fell disproportionately on young Americans.
World War II won through young men such as Lieutenant Lloyd Hughes, 23, of the Air Force, who flew his B-24 bomber through a chimney wall to bomb the Nazi oil source in Ploesti on August 1, 1943.
And while the war opposed to the Axis powers in World II was very different from the war opposed to the coronavirus, we will also have to fight in our existing war until victory is ours.
In France, 19-year-old army 2-lieutenant Audie Murphy fought solo against six German tanks and several hundred infants with an Array50-caliber gun device on a burning American tank destroyer on January 26, 1945.war when he was underage, but lied about his age.He won all army wrestling awards, won a promotion on the battlefield to officer and continued to star in videos after the war.
Marine Marine Sergeant Darrell S.Cole, 24, drove his device-to-ground weapon segment at Iwo Jima on February 19, 1945.Cole, a device-turned-gunner who had fought with the Marines in Guadalcanal, Kwajalein, Saipan and Tinian.that morning, exhausting a grenade attack on Japanese weapons.
Marine Corps commander Ernest Evans, 36, was killed at the Battle of Samur on October 25, 1944, and was seriously injured when he turned to the ghost of his paralyzed destroyer to turn the wheel with his hand, hitting the USS Johnston between the Japanese attacking fleet and the US aircraft carrier, until his shipment sank.
All four men received the Medal of Honor, and only Murphy survived.
Today, only 389,000 American World War II veterans are still alive, while the larger generation passes. The war waged before the birth of most of us is now a component of our history so familiar that the victory of the Allies would possibly seem certain.. Il there is no direct path to victory.
History books give us the names and positions of lost and won battles: Pearl Harbor, Coral Sea, Midway, Guadalcanal, Santa Cruz, Kasserine Pass, Bismarck Sea, Monte Cassino, Sicily, Ploesti, Salerno, Anzio, Tarawa, Normandy, Philippine Sea, Hurtgen Forest, Battle of the Bulging, Luzon, Iwo Jima, Okinawa and more.
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On September 2, 1945, the time had come to forge something profitable with the terrible struggle, but the fight for freedom ended when the Japanese headed to the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
For Army General Douglas MacArthur, to whom the Japanese surrendered, the victory left the United States with a permanent obligation.
“It is my hope,” MacArthur said at the ceremony, “that from this solemn instance may emerge a larger world of blood and carnage of the past, a world founded on religion and understanding, a world committed to the dignity of man and the realization of his dearest desire for freedom, tolerance and justice.
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America’s wartime courage and hope led to a preference to remain the world leader.
And America is still determined to fight for freedom.
And the war opposed to the Axis powers in World II was very different from the war opposed to the coronavirus, we will also have to fight in our existing war until the victory is ours.In time, we’re going to have a vaccine. We will have treatments and like World War II, our war against coronavirus will become a remote memory, known for generations in the long term only through history books.
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