The Daily Background

1,246. The number of days after the US became involved in WWII for Nazi Germany to be defeated¹

1,429. The number of days the US has been fighting in Iraq, with no end in sight²

Footnotes
¹Calculated from December 8, 1941, the day after Pearl Harbor when the US officially declared war, until May 7, 1945, the day Nazi Germany surrendered unconditionally to Allied forces.

²Calculated from March 20, 2003, the day bombing of Baghdad began, to the present (February 26, 2007).

Calculations by The Daily Background.

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