battle losses among the country’s sea services, the Marine Corps suffered 2,461 killed and 9,520 wounded, and the Navy suffered 431 killed and 819 wounded. Army personnel killed in the final three months of the war in terms of casualties per month, this was the bloodiest period in U.S. The United States suffered 53,402 combat deaths, the vast majority of them U.S. France, Germany, Russia, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire all lost more than a million soldiers, and the United Kingdom and its dominions lost more than a million. Estimates vary widely depending on the source, but somewhere on the order of nine to ten million military personnel died during the war and another seven to eight million civilians perished. The exact number of people killed and wounded in World War I will never be known, particularly those who were killed on the Eastern Front before Czarist Russia collapsed and the Bolshevik government sued for peace. Between the time the Armistice was signed-around 0500 that morning-and when the cease-fire went into effect at 1100, over 3,000 more soldiers on both sides were killed and over 8,000 wounded as bitter fighting continued. Navy Railway Gun Unit fired a 14-inch shell timed to hit a German target over 20 miles away seconds before the cease-fire went into effect at 1100 that same day, thus bringing an end to what had been hitherto, the bloodiest, most costly, and destructive war in human history. “Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like there will be any successor to this game (like how Club Penguin Island succeeded Club Penguin), so once Fantage closes, it will be the last we hear of them,” Jewel said.At 1057:30 on 11 November 1918, Battery 4 of the U.S. I asked Bae for a comment but haven’t heard back yet. The company staged a farewell party last week for the fans. I was actually surprised to see what might be considered a copycat world take off. They could make gestures and glide around on an air board. The characters had big heads, big eyes, and small bodies. The art was based on cute Japanese anime style but with distinctly American twists. Then, they created what would become Fantage (short for Fantastic Age), a fantasy world modeled after Disney’s Club Penguin.įantage was a place where kids could create cartoon-like avatars and dress them up, chat with friends, and play simple games. After a few months, they showed it to a focus group of kids who hated it. Next, they decided to build a virtual world with built-in games for young kids. First, they tried an online math website. They hired some contract programmers and decided to build a site focused on online education. This was Hwang’s third startup and Bae’s second. They started their company in January 2007 in Palisades Park, N.J. Disney bought Club Penguin for $700 million in 2007, and soon enough, there were 200 kid-centric virtual worlds in development.Ĭofounders Peter Bae and David Hwang studied Korean online games, and they experimented with what to do in the U.S. “There is also a private server of the game being made, similar to how fans managed to recreate Club Penguin and Toontown Online with private servers after they were shut down.”įantage was born in March 2008 in the middle of a boom for kid-focused virtual worlds. “There has already been a petition to try to save the site, and fans have been trying to send enough mail to the company that the company started giving out automatic e-mails,” she said. She said it had changed a lot over the years. That’s not to say that it was unexpected though,” said Faria Jewel, a former Fantage fan, in an email. “While Fantage was not as popular as Club Penguin, it was loved enough that its large user base was in sadness over the news.