42,000 KIA from December 1941 to August 1945 would be “only” about 42 men per day.But my understanding is the bomber activity didn’t get started until months into 1942 so the losses were probably closer to 100 men on average of every day the weather permitted bombing.
I doubt today’s Americans would support a war with such losses.
Come to think of it ,today’s Americans prefer to kill their children themselves rather than let foreigners do it. (We have been committing national suicide since 1973 and the death toll is over 40 million yet anyone trying to stop the slaughter is villiied and often prosecuted by the evil ones in authority.
The sad thing is so many sacrificed in 1940s America only to have their children and grandchildren endorse the same evils under different banners.
Wiki has 620,000 Americans in the air war with nearly 80,000 ‘lost in action’. That’s almost a whopping 13%!