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Re: Re: Nationals @ Pirates, Game 2
« Reply #25: August 20, 2019, 03:09:35 PM »
1k a day are dying is the figure quoted. I don’t know how close to the end we’re getting.

it was around half a million left alive in 2018.  That's out of 16 million who served in WWII.  Estimate is somewhere around 2030 the last survivors will be gone.

https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/wwii-veteran-statistics