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There were 16,112,566 members of the United States Armed Forces during World War II. There were 291,557 battle deaths, 113,842 other deaths in service (non-theater), and 670,846 non-mortal woundings. According to the Department of Veterans Affairs, around 620,000 American veterans from the war are estimated to still be alive as of 2016.
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Medal of Honor recipients
During this conflict 464 United States military personnel received the Medal of Honor, 266 of them posthumously. Additionally, the only Medal of Honor recipient in the history of the United States Coast Guard, Douglas Albert Munro, received the Medal for his actions during this war. There are currently six living World War II Medal of Honor recipients.
Mortality
In 2016, the Department of Veterans Affairs estimated that 372 American World War II veterans died every day.
Survivors associations
There are numerous US World War II survivors associations, including American Defenders of Bataan and Corregidor, Pearl Harbor Survivors Association, Veterans of the Battle of the Bulge, United States Submarine Veterans of World War II, Navajo Nation Code Talker Association, and the Philippine Scouts Heritage Society.