Why did the United States had no civilian deaths in WWII?

Question

Why did the United States had no civilian deaths in WWII?

Answer 1

There were civilian deaths. During the attack on Pearl Harbor, 57 civilians were killed. During World War 2,  The Japanese launched fire balloons carrying bombs on Amercian and Canadian cities, forests, and farmlands. Luckily most of the Balloons didn't cause any damage. On May 5, 1945, One balloon did however killed six people during a church picnic. Only the pastor survived because he went to his car to get something for the church picnic. The victims were

1. Elsie Mitchell, age 26

2. Edward Engen, age 13

3. Jay Gifford, age 13

4. Joan Patzke, age 13

5. d**k Patzke, age 14

6. Sherman Shoemaker, age 11

Answer 2

The war was mainly fought in Europe and Asia. I do believe there were civilian deaths during Pearl Harbor bombing though.

Answer 3

Because they fought in other countries, not in the US.

Answer 4

because it was too far away for germany and japan to bomb and japan may have been able to bomb the west coast and hawaii but the waters nearby were controlled by the u.s navy and they would havepicked up any planes flying towards america in a second

Answer 5

That's not completely accurate.  However there were very few civilian deaths because there was no fighting in the continental U.S.

Answer 6

That's not exactly true, but the answer you're looking for is that the United States was isolated by the vast Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and protected by the large Allied fleets that stood between the U.S. mainland and the Axis Powers. This is the same thing that kept the United States out of previous world conflicts for over a century.

But to be more accurate, the United States had some civilian deaths.  Around 9,000 American merchant shippers were killed by German U-boat attacks in the Battle of the Atlantic, and about 1,700 civilians were killed overseas in Europe and Asia. 68 died in the bombing of Pearl Harbor, 98 were massacred on Wake Island, 6 were killed by Allied anti-aircraft fire during a false air raid alarm in L.A., and 6 were killed by Japanese fire balloon attacks in the Pacific Northwest.  There were probably more isolated incidents, but those are the ones I'm aware of.

Answer 7

We did have civilian deaths, largely minimal. But civilians were killed at Pearl Harbor. And a little known fact of WWII is in the Merchant marine there was a higher percentage of deaths than in the USN. But because they merchant Marine sailors were "civilians", they received no benefits and very little respect. Even today. But most were sunk repeatedly. If they survived. The lucky ones just got a new ship and did it again. The risks they ran were far higher than on a well armed and purpose built warship. The percentage of deaths far higher, and in many cases the deaths were horrible....But the war would not have been won without them. There would have been no supplies for the victories. There is a strong probability Great Britain would have been starved into submission

Answer 8

There were civilian deaths in Honolulu, evidently largely "friendly fire" casualties, since the gun crews were shooting at practically anything moving.

The civilian construction workers on Wake Island were either killed in the invasion, or in the subsequent execution in 1943.

There were also some casualties in the northwest, since some of the incendiary balloons did reach the mainland and start some fires.

The Merchant sailors were not in the military either, and hundreds of them went down with their vessels during the Battle of the Atlantic.

Most of the actual combat took place in Europe, the Islands of the Pacific, the waters of the Atlantic, Mainland Asia, and Northern Africa.

Answer 9

This is a joke!! Right.

Answer 10

Of course there were non-military (ie: civilian) deaths of US citizens during the WW-2:

--Pearl Harbor

--Philippines

--Wake Island (at least 98 construction workers were beheaded to celebrate the birthday of the emperor and then at least 2 more were killed in some unspecified manner)

--hosts of other civilians captured in places like China, Singapore, New Guinea, Guam.  They were not treated well by the Japanese

--US Merchant Marine (mostly deaths in the Atlantic)

--the japanese floated bubonic plague and incendinary devices over by balloon and that results in several fires and resulting deaths in the NW

--there were also some US citizens who died in concentration camps (though many of these were dual citizens who got counted as German or French or Dutch deaths).

Excluding the Merchant Marine, it was 1,700 civilian deaths.  And then there are all the deaths resulting from testing or transferring aircraft, manufacturing accidents, munition tests or other war support efforts which don't get counted.

Answer 11

Not so. What do you call those that died in Pearl Harbor? Not all were service men, ariel bombardment is not picky about it's targets. The sinking of the Lusitania also caused American civilian deaths - 128 U.S. civilians were killed in a war in which they were officially neutral at that point.

Answer 12

Every human being whom fought in the war of the world ll for the USA  was a civilian before the chaos broke out all around the world.and when enlisted they became known as something else

OH MY friend everyone of the dead and alive from the USA were civilian.

Answer 13

Are you seriously doing all of your homework on here?  Read a book!  Common sense should tell you that the reason that there was little civilian casualites is because WWII was in Europe and Asia!