National WWII statistics from https://www.nationalww2museum.org/students-teachers/student-resources/research-starters/research-starters-worldwide-deaths-world-war
Worldwide Casualties*
Battle Deaths 15,000,000
Battle Wounded 25,000,000
Civilian Deaths 45,000,000
*Worldwide casualty estimates vary widely in several sources. The number of civilian deaths in China alone might well be more than 50,000,000.
OK
You go ahead on and keep counting until you finally get to your “100 million” figure.
(Oh, and, by the way, not to mention,
the article was talking about “American deaths”)
If you find yourself in a hole you should probably quit digging.
If you are wrong, never admit it.
Another misleading statistic for WWII would be Soviet dead; many in the West fought against Stalin after the German invasion (after he killed 30 million with starvation in the 1930s), so they can’t all be chalked up to Axis aggression.