All interesting points...Thanks much for the info..The reason I am concentrating on 11B and 11C, is because if that is ever nailed down, ( I doubt it will ever be...for a lot of reasons..way too many variables... and very sloppy records kept by the Army in particular...) .all the other info will easily follow...( I quite understand there were a whole bunch of MOSs in direct combat..no prob... but, there is conventional wisdom that the tooth-to-tail ratio was on the order of 1 -7 or 1 - 8... )...Put this in your pipe and smoke it... I was watching the last 15 minutes of an hour show somewhere..on Discovery I think...or History Channel.. with Oliver North and it was about fighter aces, mostly in Vietnam, but some in Korea...real good show... and North made the statement that over 10,000,000 veterans served in South East Asia during the Vietnam War..my wife heard it too...a strange number..he should know better...
Let me collect my thoughts and I will have some more info...
I have always been a part-time-math ( Calculus was my Waterloo... made 3 Ds in college in I II and III back-to-back... had a Chinese professor that no one could understand and a Pakistani Hindu who was not much better... )
and a statistics-junkie...not very good at it though...From what I have seen the WW2 stats for all USA branches of service from 1940 -1946 are fairly accurate..
enough for now... as I am getting severe heartburn ( brrrp ) ahhhh
oh those darn habeneros...
Larry
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