By the numbers ...

My father is president of his local Lion's Club, and they had a WWII veteran in as the guest speaker of honor, whom told a heroing POW story, and eventual escape. At any rate he rattled off the numbers of enlisted versus dead at the end of the speech, and that got me thinking - just for reference if nothing else, what is the enlisted to casualty rate (battle related and not) for each of America's wars? Some quick online research and here they are (if you see any discrepancies, please alert me to it, online sources are at times inaccurate, as we all know).

United States Casualties by Conflict

Conflict Total Who Served / Battle Deaths / Disease & Nonbattle Deaths / Wounds Not Mortal

American Revolution
1775–1783 Estimated 184,000 to 250,000 / 4,435 / NA / 6,188

War of 1812
1812–1815 286,730 / 2,260 / NA / 4,505

Mexican-American War
1846–1848 78,718 / 1,733 / 11,550 / 4,152

Civil War (Union Only)
1861–1865 2,213,363 / 140,414 / 224,097 / 281,881

Spanish-American War
1898–1899 306,760 / 1,000 / 5,400 / 1,662

World War I
1917–1918 4,734,991 / 53,402 / 63,114 / 204,002

World War II
1941–1945 16,112,566 / 291,557 / 113,842 / 671,846

Korean War
1950–1953 5,720,000 / 33,686 / 2,830 / 103,284

Vietnam War
1964–1973 8,744,000 / 47,410 / 10,788 / 153,303

Gulf War
1990–1991 467,159 / 148 / 151 / 467

I obtained the Iraq & Afghan war rates from a separate site.

Iraq War
2003- present
Roughly 1.2 million in the US Armed Services, currently 158,000 deployed to Iraq. 4,119 dead as of July 15th 2008. As of March 2008 there were 8,914 wounded requiring medical air transport. 20,416 wounded did not require medical air transport. Of all the wounded 13,109 were unable to return to duty within 72 hours. Medical air transport was required for an additional 8,273 for non-hostile injuries, and for 23,052 for diseases or other medical conditions.

Afghan War
2001–present
560 dead 2,205 wounded.Roughly 17,000 currently deployed.