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star.gif The ten month Battle of Verdun, 1916 caused over one million casualties.

star.gif There were 4,734,991 US troops involved in the war.

star.gif 53,402 American people died during the war.

star.gif The United States didn't join the war until 1917, even though it started in 1914.

star.gif During the course of the war, 11% of Frances population was killed or wounded.

star.gif 80,000 British troops suffered shell shock.

star.gif Was the first war that used toxic gases (mustard gas).

star.gif Coffin nails was an expression used by British soldiers to describe cigerettes.

star.gif 296 US soldiers committed suicide, in the seven months the US was in the war.

star.gif 1,808,000 German soldiers were killed in four years of the war.

star.gif There were 70,000,000 men and women in uniform, half of that number were either killed, wounded, or became prisoners of war.

 

 

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