Is there any documentation of how many U.S. or allied soldiers were killed in Europe or worldwide in the year or two after WWII ended?
The best I can do is this...Navy & Marine. http://www.history.navy.mil/library/online/ww2_statistics.html or try .index.html after mil.
Try just searching for history of U.S. Navy. Then look for casualties. Options for other branches came up after that. Surf Baby Surf! I found it by accident (like most other things), and it gave numbers by years up to 1947. It gave catagories I've never heard of, training accidents, non war zones, even the number of soldiers incompacitated by VD. Which was 606 Americans a day in WW2.
http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq11-1.html Damnb, that one doesn't work either! Try just casualties of WW2, I was just there again!!