# 12,000 US Civilians Died In WWII? What?

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**Created:** [April 22, 2022, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/12-000-us-civilians-died-in-wwii-what/963264 "2022-04-22T16:11:18Z")\
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Something more on the US civilians in the Philippines. Estimates more than 700.

> **[4 Decades Later, Civilian POWs Reunite to Remember](https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-02-14-me-7888-story.html)**
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> Dr. Carol Talbot only remembers that she was working on her book.

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> [@Slithy\_Tove](#):
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> Are they counting war industries’ fatalities? [They did outnumber battlefield deaths in the first year of the war](https://ehistory.osu.edu/exhibitions/machinery/index)

I was looking at pictures recently of war production (possibly related to the B-24 Liberator at Willow River) and was struck by all the workers not wearing safety glasses, gloves, or any sort of PPE.

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