World War II(1941-45): America's most massive mobilization involved 16 million men and women, of whom 2.1 million are still alive.
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In this 2010 file photo, visitors enter the USS Arizona memorial at the World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii.