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.”
