Spencerville's US War Casualties
1775 To Presant
Military Action Hostile Deaths Wounded Non-Hostile Deaths
Revolutionary War (1775-1783) 6,824 8,445 18,500
Indian War (1789-1898)
Soldiers 2,125 2156 N/A
Indians 4,000 N/A N/A
Franco-American Naval War (1798-18 00) 20 42 N/A
Barbary Wars (1801-05, 1815) 35 64 N/A
USS Chesapeake Vs. HMS Leopard (1807) 3 18 0
War of 1812 (1812-1815) 2,260 4,505 524+
Marquesas Islands (1813-14) 5 3 N/A
Slave Attack in Florida (1816) 4 0 0
Peru (1820) 2 6 0
West Indies (1822-25) 4 5 N/A
Aegean Sea (1827) 1 0 0
Sumatra (1832) 2 11 N/A
Texas War of Independence (1835-36) 704 138 N/A
Mexican War (1846-48) 1,733 4,152 11,550
Paraguay (1855) 1 0 0
China (1855-59) 14 31 N/A
Fiji (1840, 1855, 1858) 3 9 NA
"Cortina war"/Texas Border (1859-60) 4 18 N/A
Vera Cruz, Mexico (1860) 1 3 0
Civil War (1861-65) 204,070 382,881 413,952
Union 110,070 281,881 249,952
Confederate 94,000 101,000 164,000
Japan (1863) 4 6 N/A
Formosa (1867) 1 0 N/A
Mexico (1870) 2 8 N/A
Korea (1871) 3 13 1
Chile (1891) 2 18 0
Spanish-American War (1898)
Philippines War (1899-1902) 1,053 2,840 3,220
Samoa (1899) 4 5 0
China Boxer Rebellion (1900) 53 253 51
Moro Campaigns (1902-06, 1913) 130 300 N/A
Dominican Republic (1904) 1 0 0
Mexican Border (1911-1919) 20 N/A N/A
Nicaragua (1912) 5 16 N/A
Vera Cruz (1914) 19 69 N/A
Haiti (1915-20) 10 26 136
Dominican Republic (1916-1922) 20 50 124
Mexico Punitive Expedition (1916) 19 30 9
World War I (1917–1918) 53,513 204,002 63,195
North Russia Expedition (1918-1919) 146 307 100
Siberia Expedition (1918-1920) 48 52 122
Nicaragua (1927-32) 48 68 89
Yangtze Service, China (1918-1941) 5 71 N/A
North Atlantic Naval War (1941) 126 44 15
World War II (1941-45) 293,121 670,846 115,185
European Theater 185,179 498,846 115,185
Pacific Theater 107,903 171,898 48,380
Trieste/Italy (1944-46) 9 14 N/A
Chinese Civil War (1945-47) 12 42 22
Cold War (1944-94) 382 N/A N/A
Philippines (1946, 1951) 8 N/A N/A
Greek Civil War (1946-49) 1 1 2
Korean War (1950-53) 33,741 103,284 2,827
Quemoy and Matsu (1954) 3 N/A N/A
Lebanon (1958) 1 1 4
Bay of Pigs, Cuba (1961) 4 0 N/A
Laos (1961-62) 11 3 3
Vietnam War (1961-73) 47,415 153,303 10,789
Cuban Missile Crisis (1962) 1 0 8
Panama Canal Riots (1964) 3 85 N/A
Dominican Republic (1965-66) 27 172 20
Guatemala (1965-68) 4 2 0
Korea DMZ (1966-69) 89 131 814
USS Liberty off Israel (1967) 34 171 0
Terrorism (1970-1998) 73 227 0
Marquez-Cambodia/Koh Tang Is. (1975) 18 50 23
Iran (1980) 0 0 8
Lebanon (1982-84) 266 169 2
Grenada (1983) 10 152 9
El Salvador (1983-91) 9 35 11
South West Africa (1984) 1 0 0
Honduras (1984, 1989) 1 28 N/A
Libya (1986) 2 0 0
USS Stark-Persian Gulf (1987) 37 21 0
Persian Gulf (1987-88) 2 10 14
Panama (1989-90) 23 240 18
Persian Gulf War (1990-91) 146 467 228
Operation Desert Shield 0 0 108
Operation Desert Storm 146 467 120
Aircraft Shoot-Down, Peru (1992) 1 5 0
Somalia (1992-94) 30 175 14
Haiti (1994) 1 3 2
Khobar Towers/Saudi Arabia (1996) 19 66 0
U.S. Embassy/Kenya (1998) 3 0 0
Kosovo (1999) 1 16 10
USS Cole/Yemen (2000) 17 39 10
Terrorist Attacks (2001-02) 57 N/A
Afghanistan War (2001-
Iraq War (2003-
Erected 2012.
Topics. This memorial is listed in this topic list: Military.
Location. 40° 42.71′ N, 84° 21.231′ W. Marker is in Spencerville, Ohio, in Allen County. Memorial is at the intersection of North Main Street (Ohio Route 117) and West 6th Street, on the right when traveling north on North Main Street. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 328 N Main St, Spencerville OH 45887, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker. Spencerville Veterans Memorial Bench (here, next to this marker); Spencerville VFW Clown Unit Veterans Memorial Bench (here, next to this marker); Deep Cut Lodge I.O.O.F. 311 Veterans Memorial (here, next to this marker); War of 1812 (here, next to this marker); Spencerville Area Veterans Memorial Park (here, next to this marker); Spencerville Schools Veterans Memorial Bench (a few steps from this marker); Vietnam War (a few steps from this marker); War On Terror (a few steps from this marker). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Spencerville.
Credits. This page was last revised on February 9, 2021. It was originally submitted on February 8, 2021, by Craig Doda of Napoleon, Ohio. This page has been viewed 113 times since then and 10 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. submitted on February 8, 2021, by Craig Doda of Napoleon, Ohio. • Devry Becker Jones was the editor who published this page.