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13 July 2003. I was in the infantry 1939 - 1941 and then transferred to the RASC as a clerk and because I could type 30 wpm received a pay increase of 25%. In 1944 I went back into the infantry...
The cost of war. By the start of the Second World War in 1939, considerable spending on increasing Britain's military capacity had already taken place. The rearmament programme, which had begun in the mid-1920s, was costing £197 million by 1937.
- Doug Whiteman
- It was America's costliest war ever. America's final bill for the fighting in the Pacific and Europe was massive. Adjusting for inflation, World War II cost over $4.1 trillion, according to 2010 figures from the Congressional Research Service.
- The war was good for Wall St. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, prolonged a Wall Street funk that had begun with the notorious stock market crash of 1929.
- Taxes were raised to all-time highs. To help finance the war, U.S. income taxes were raised to the highest levels in history. For 1944 and 1945, income amounts above $200,000 — about $3.3 million in today's dollars — were taxed at an astounding marginal tax rate of 94%!
- Soldier pay soared after Pearl Harbor. Heading into World War II, the military was not a career choice that paid well. Before the Pearl Harbor attack in late 1941, privates earned $21 per month.
Aug 23, 2007 · Section 7, page 16 observes that Non-tradesman cooks (regimental personnel) receive additional pay up to 6d per day, and that Unqualified cooks recieve up to 3d per day additional. Unhelpfully, it does not indicate what the normal rates of pay were, although I imagine that is a bit of a minefield anyway.
The Normandy campaign saw the Anglo-American armies inflict a decisive defeat on the German military machine. The British Army's role was pivotal, but victory came at a price. Between D-Day and the end of August some 83,000 British, Canadian and Polish troops became casualties, of whom almost 16,000 were killed.
The economic cost of this war has greatly changed the world by altering the power structure of the world. World War Two lasted 6 years and it was the most expensive war in the history. Adjusted for inflation to today’s dollars, the war cost over $4 trillion.
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3 days ago · The money cost to governments involved has been estimated at more than $1,000,000,000,000 but this figure cannot represent the human misery, deprivation, and suffering, the dislocation of peoples and of economic life, or the sheer physical destruction of property that the war involved.
