An Historic Comparison

Using the most accurate figures available to them at the time, the editors at PM Daily News compared and contrasted the two world wars for their readers in their VJ-Day issue:

"The war that ended yesterday lasted 2,173 days, compared with the 1,563-day duration of World War I...Sixteen nations were involved in W.W. I, most of them actively; fifty-eight were involved in World War II, most of them inactively."