Salt Lake City, Utah, Feb. 9, 1946 10 Million Killed in Last War NEW YORK Approximately 10,000,000 men were killed in action during World War II, according to statisticians of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. Axis losses, estimated to exceed 5,200,000, were appreciably greater than those of the United Nations, whose oil is estimated at about 4,500,000. These figures, the statisticians point out, are conservative estimates based upon data obtained through a wide variety of sources. The United States and the British empire are the only major powers for which official and fairly complete statements of battle losses are available. Germany tops the list, with 3,250,000 battle deaths. Japan, her major Axis partner, lost about 1,500,000 men, while Italys combat losses were probably 150,000 to 200,000. Germanys other satellites together lost 225,000. Of this total, Romanias losses account for about 100,000; Hungarys for about 75,000, and Finlands for about 50,000. Bulgaria's losses were comparatively insignificant. On the United Nations side, Russias deaths in combat are estimated at approximately three millions, or about two thirds of the entire combat losses suffered by the Allies. The second highest toll among the Allies was borne by the British empire, whose battle deaths are estimated at 375,000 to 400,000. Next in rank is the United States, whose battle deaths were about 325,000, including an allowance for deaths among those wounded in action and among those still carried as missing on the casualty lists. Battle deaths of the other European Allies are estimated at 450,000, excluding those incurred by forces of the underground. French losses, including those of the Free French, are officially estimated at 167,000. Polands combat losses are set at about 125,000, including deaths in her forces fighting alongside the Allies after the collapse of their country. Yugoslavias toll during her long guerrilla warfare against the Germans is estimated to be in the neighborhood of 75,000; Greek losses are estimated at 50,000; Belgium reports more than 7000 combat deaths, and the Dutch more than 6000 in the five days of fighting in May, 1940, alone. The Norwegians lost about 1000. Deaths of underground fighters in some of these countries exceeded those of men in uniform. Chinas military deaths, since Pearl Harbor, are conservatively estimated at 250,000. The combat deaths of the British empire, the statisticians report, are divided as follows: More than 250,000, or two thirds of the total, natives of the United Kingdom; Canada's losses of more than 35,000 were next heaviest, while Australias loss was more than 25,000 men, New Zealands more than 10,000, South Africas about 7000 and Indias loss nearly 30,000. Combat deaths took a toll of nearly 10,000 among men from the British colonies.