Almost half of all WW1 American casualties died of the flu

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By the first week of October 1918 45,000 soldiers were sick in military camps and 340,000 soldiers were hospitalized in France (at the height of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive of 1918). General Pershing, CIC for the AEF and the Army Chief of Personnel were both hard pressed to field a healthy army to effectively fight the German Army in October 1918. Also, of the 121,225 Navy/Marine/Coast Guard personnel admitted for treatment at Naval Hospitals for influenza, 4,158 died (twice as many died of the flu than died in combat action from the sea services in WWI). These figures total: 51,154 American service personnel dying of the flu in 1918 (44 percent of all the 116,000-plus in the line-of-duty deaths of American servicemen in WWI).

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Worldwide, in a time when death statistics were poorly recorded, estimates range from 30 million to 100,000 million dying of the Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918-19. Over 675,000 Americans civilians died of this pandemic in 1918–19, more than all military personnel killed in WWI, WWII, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. The odds of death from the Spanish Flu in the American civilian population of 103,208,000 was 1 in 153.

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Worldwide, in a time when death statistics were poorly recorded, estimates range from 30 million to 100 million dying of the Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918-19.

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