![]() ![]() Census and the “1915-1941 Vital Statistics: Natality & Mortality Data ” made available through the National Historical Geographic Information System. To make sense of the fatality records, I analyzed them against demographic data from the U.S. The y-axis depicts the per-100k loss.Įven with incomplete records, that is, only those county-level statistics from the Department of the Army, I think we can still proceed with our inquiry. Each state is located on an x-axis that shows what percentage of that combined total was lost in naval service. Each dot represents a state that is colorized by region and sized by the number of total wartime fatalities (both Army and Navy). ![]() Graphic 1: This graphic depicts the military fatalities endured by the states in total losses and the relative number of deaths lost in naval service during World War II. They were not spread out evenly as 19 states endured slanted naval losses above the national average, including some highly populated states like California (graphic 1). Spoiler alert: we’re still going to proceed, but before doing so, I’d like to pause and note that according to these datasets, 17.9% of American lives were lost during the war came from those who served within the Department of the Navy. But there’s no way that I can, as a single person, transcribe every name and then geocode every address. The NARA records record that 66,370 sailors, marines, and coastguardmen were killed in the war. The said file is a vailable on my GitHub.Īttempting a long-term analysis of county-level military fatalities without data from the Navy is, in the parlance of our times, problematic. I have, however, digitized the Navy Department’s state records and posted a CSV file with them and the Department of the Army figures. While the Navy records do list individuals and their street addresses, they do not offer county-level tabulations. These records do not contain figures for those who served within the Department of the Navy, which includes sailors, marines, and coastguardsmen. I should note that the records also contain the names and geographic tabulations of those who hailed from America’s various territories (including Hawaii and Alaska). Army Air Forces killed and missing in action. The records contain 3,123 county figures for all 48 states plus Washington, D.C., and total up to 307,757 U.S. So I decided to do it myself and hand-jammed the county tabulations in the “ WWII Army and Army Air Force Casualties” records currently available in pdf form from the National Archives. Yet, to really flesh this thing out, I needed records for the Second World War…and those are surprisingly difficult to obtain, at least in a transcribed form. In both pieces, I argued a thesis that I still hold, that the sectional, economic, and racial disparities in military sacrifice have led to our current political strife.īut what about the past? How did we get here? Assuming that the latter is true, is it a new phenomenon? To answer it, I have, over the last few months, analyzed military fatality data available through the Defense Casualty Analysis System (DCAS) for the Global War on Terror (GWOT), the Vietnam War, as well as the Korean War. I’ve written on this topic for and on this blog. While it is a question tangentially related to my dissertation research, it has been a distraction that I cannot shake. The checker found problems which may prevent the document from being fully accessible.How have the patterns of American military sacrifice changed throughout the 20th century, and how have said changes influenced our politics in the current year? This question has lingered in my mind for years. Acrobat Accessibility Report Accessibility Report Filename: SECTIONII.pdf Report created by: Organization: ![]()
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