16.5 million served. You are very misinformed. Good night.
You do not get off so lightly. The United States did not have 16 million and a half service people so your number is taken from the total allied forces. I’m not even sure of that number as too many of our allies padded numbers to obtain resources. Sweet dreams.
almost a third (6M) of them could have been armed with M1 Carbines. :)
The numbers from the Congressional Research Service.
Total 16,112,566
Army 11,260,000
Navy 4,183,466
Marines 669,100
Of course that doesn't include Coast Guard or Merchant Marine, which would be another 484,093, which gets it right up to your 16.5 million.