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Scott MacEachern wrote:

On 14 Dec 2003 23:11:41 GMT, (B2431) wrote:

Your link didn't work for me.

As for post "combat deaths" during the occupation of Germany the
History Channel gave a rather low number (38?). If you do reasearch
looking for "combat deaths" post surrender you may not find any
since they woudn't be considered "combat."

Possibly an issue with Acrobat? The home page for the publication is
http://www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR1753/

The book considers American involvement in nation-building operations
in seven different cases -- Germany, Japan, Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia,
Kosovo, and Afghanistan. In all cases, the authors are looking at
experiences after conflict has ended, and post-surrender combat deaths
certainly seem to be what they're counting.

The odd bit is that we keep hearing about *all* US deaths (accidents,
medical issues, and combat-related deaths) in Iraq, but only hear about
direct combat-related deaths after WWII.

And if you think we had a half-million GIs running around in Germany for
several months in 1945 and 1946 without so much as a traffic accident or
a heart attack...

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