The Daily Background
| War Math
Filed at 10:37 pm, Monday February 26th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
by Arlen Parsa
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).
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