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ARM BAT Y N.ONBATTLE DEATHS IN WORLD II WAR

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FINAL REPORT
7 DECEMBER 1941 - 31 DECEMBER 1946

Prepared

by

STATISTICAL ACCOUNTING AND BRANCH OFFICE THE OF ADJUTANT GENERAL

Under Direction of

PROGRAM REVIEW ANALYSIS AND DIVISION OFFICE THE OF COMPTROLLER ARMY, OFTHE O.C.S.

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EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT Bureau of the Budget Office of Statistical Standards National Security Resources Board 3FFICE, SECRETARY DEFENSE OF Secretary of Defense Assistant Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) Director, Office of Progress Reports and Statistics Assistant Secretary of Defense (Manpower and Personnel) Director, Office of Armed Forces Information and Education Director, Office of Public Information JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF MUNITIONS BOARD Chief, Statistics Office STATE ADJUTANTSGENEZAL OFFICE, SECRETARY THE ARMY OF Secretary of the Army Administrative Assistant Director, Army Library OFFICE, CHIEF OF STAFF Chief of Staff Comptroller of the Army Chief, Program Review and Analysis Chief, Budget.Division . Chief, Management Division Chief of Information Chief of Legislative Liaison GENERALSTAFF Assistant Chief of Staff, Assistant Chief of Staff, Assistant Chief of Staff, Assistant Chief of Staff, SCHOOLS Armed Forces Staff College Industrial College of the Armed Forces National War College Armed Forces Information School United States Armed Forces Institute Army War College Commandand General Staff College United States Military Academy Adjutant General's School Armored School Army General School Arm;y Medical Service Graduate School Artillery School Chaplain's School Chemical Corps School Engineer School Finance School, U.S. Army Infantry School Judge Advocate General's School Medical Field Service School Ordnance School Provost Marshal General's School Quartermaster School Signal School Southeastern Signal School Southwestern Signal School Transportation School DEPARTMENT THE AIR FORCE OF Director of Statistical Services DEPARTMENT THE NAVY OF Chief of Naval Operations Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps DEPARTMENT F COMMERCE O Bureau of the Census LIBRARY OF CONGRESS VETERANSADMINISTRATION CHIEF, ARMY FIELD FORCES CONTINENTALUNITED STATES COMMANDS C.G., First Army C.G., Second Aw C.G. > Third Army C.G. > Fourth.Army C.Ge> Fifth Army LG., Sixth Army District of Washington C.G., Military Command C.G., Army Antiaircraft OVERSEACOIaciANDS C.G., U.S. Army Forces, Far East C.G.) U.S. Army, Pacific C.G., U.S. Army, Alaska C.G;, U.S. Army, Europe C.G., U.S. Forces, Austria C.G., U.S. Army, Caribbean C.G., Trieste United States Troops

Division

G-l, Personnel G-2, Intelligence G-3, Operations G-4, Logistics

SPECIAL STAFF Chief of Finance Inspector General Chief of Military History Judge Advocate General Chief, National Guard Bureau Executive for Reserve and ROTC Affairs Chief of Psychological Warfare ADMINISTRATIVE STAFFS AND SERVICES The Adjutant General Chief of Chaplains Provost Marshal General TECHNICAL STAFFS AND SERVICES Chief of Ordnance Chief Signal Officer Quartermaster General Chief of Engineers Chief of Transportation Surgeon General Chief Chemical Officer

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Page INTRODUCTION SUMMARY

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INTRODUCTION

This report is a final statistical record of battle casualties and nonbattle deaths incurArmy red during World War II by United States including members of the military. personnel, Within the limits prescribed Army Air Forces. the tables were designed to by available funds, of the meet the minimum over-all requirements Army for statistics on this subject. The period covered is from 7 December 1941 through 31 December 1946 - from the unprovoked attack on Pearl Harbor to the day hostilities were declared terminated by Presidential Proclamation No. 271&.++ Battle casualties are shown in various 'ways such as type and disposition, theater, month of occurrence, duty branch, grade in which serving, component, place of occurcampaign, and area of resirence, organization, dence. Death statistics include classifications by type of death, theater, month of death, duty branch, grade in which serving, type of personnel, and area of residence. Statistics presented herein supersede similar data appearing in such reports as the War Department publication "Battle Casualties of the from 1942 through Army," produced periodically 1 July 1946; the 1 October 1950 and earlier issues of the Department of the Arg publication "Strength of the Army," STM-30;' and other reports which present comparable statistics on World War II battle casualties and nonbattle deaths. Death statistics by state'of residence should be obtained from this report,, rather than the "World War II Honor List of Dead and Missing," prepared by The Adjutant General for the War Department Bureau of Public Relations in June 1946. SOURCES DATA OF All oversea theaters initially reported battle casualties to The Adjutant General by radioed or cabled name listings. Beginning early in 1944 the major theaters transmitted their reports by.officer courier in the form of individual machine re'cords punched cards for each battle casualty. Information was also received from the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva, Switzerland, the United States legation in Berne,Switzerland, and other sources on captured and interned personnel. The Casualty Branch, AGO, was the official casualty recording and notification agency of It was concerned primarily the War Department. with the receipt and recording of basic reports on individual casualties, and the issuance of notifications to emergency addressees and to appropriate War Department agencies. From these reports the Strength Accounting Branch, AGO, (earlier known as the Machine Records Branch) prepared statistical cards on battle casualties and deaths and statistical tabulations and reports derived from them. In addition to battle 'casualty reports, which included both fatal and non-fatal casualties,' the oversea theaters reported nonbattle 3: Japan accepted Allied peace terms on 14 August 1945 (V-J Day), and signed the surrender agreement on 2 September 1945. deaths and missing personnel (as distinguished from missing in action) by radio, cable, or ofDead and missing persons in the ficer courier. continental United States were reported by radio or telegraph by commanders of posts, camps, staUnder the provisions of tions, and airfields. Section 9 of the Y%issing Persons Act," Public Law 490, 77th Congress, 7 March 1942, as amended, the Chief of the Casualty Branch, AGO, ::,ade the absence of determinations as to whetherin received, official reports other information which was deemed to establish conclusively the fact of death, was to be construed and acted upon as official He also made reports of death. findings of death - ( see "Declared Dead" on page 4) in the case of missing and missing in action These are the basic sources for the personnel. machine records punched cards from which the death statistics appearing herein were compiled. After the end of the war, the Office of The Adjutant General over a period of several years audited the statistical cards maintained in that office with the punched card decks which had been maintained in those oversea commands which system of recording used the machine records battle casualties and deaths during World War Particular emphasis was placed on the esII. tablishment of a complete and accurate punched card file for all deaths of Army (including Army Air Forces) military personnel. The audit of death cases entailed a reconciliation of the punched card death records in the Strength Accounting Branch, AGO, with the death records of the Casualty Branch, AGO. The statistics presented herein include all records changes processed in the card file through 31 December 1949. Processing after 31 December 1946 consisted primarily of revisions from declared dead to other reportable death categories, from a current wounded or injured in action to a wounded or injured in action disposition status, and from a current missing in action to a declared dead or other reportable. death or battle casualty disposition status. Many changes also resulted from the audit of death cases conducted jointly by the Casualty and Strength Accounting Branches, AGO. CONTENTS Battle Casualty Tables

The major portion of this report (pages 8 casualties, through 95) is concerned with battle and except for two tables (page 47 and pages 92 through 95) includes comprehensive data on their subsequent disposition. Battle casualties are grouped into four in action," principal categories of "Killed ICaptured and "Wounded and injured in action," They are interned," and lrMi.ssing in action." of shown further by the outcome or disposition statistics on pereach casualty. For instance, sonnel wounded and injured in action contain not but only the total reported in that category, also the number that died of battle wounds and injuries in the oversea commands, the number returned to duty in the oversea commands, and the Data on number evacuated to the United States.

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evacuees who died of battle wounds and injuries are shown in a separate column. Information disposition on the-subsequent of battle wounded or injured personnel evacuatei. to the United States is not available, excepi; for those cases recorded by The Adjutant General as having died of their wounds or injuries. Determination of the disposition of the remainder - returned to duty, died of other separated, causes not attributable to the wounds or injuries, etc. - would have required an exhaustive and expensive examination of personnel records. Although the nonbattle deaths among this group of battle casualties cannot be isolated and shown as dispositions of battle casualties, they are recorded in the nonbattle death columns of the tables in this report concerned with all Arqr deaths. ColuiXms are provided for nonbattle deaths under the major categories 'Captured and interned]' and Y!Jissing in actionl' in order to show what happened to . individuals initially reported as battle casualties, but who subsequently died of disease or other nonbattle cause while still in a battle casualty status. The column "Total deaths among battle casualtiesrf includes these nonbattle deaths plus those persons who were killed in action, died of wounds and injuries received in action, or were,declared dead from a u&sing in action status. for the major battle casualty The totals 'Wounded and incategories "Killed in actiorQ in action,!1 and "Captured and interned" jured represent all persons who were ever reported in those categories (exclusive of erroneous reThis is not the case, however, for the ports). Missing in action V7.issing in actionrf total. was essentially an unknown status, and consisted or'actual fate whose whereabouts of personnel could not be determjned and whose disappearance was presumed to be the result of enemy action. Most of the cases originally reported in this category were transferred to a killed in action, wounded and in&red or captured and in action, interned status, as established by subsequent The remainder are shown in this information. report under the missing in action dispositions of declared dead, died of other causes (nonbattle), or returned to duty.
in addition alty status, deaths Army-wide.

to all

other nonbattle

Deaths are recorded in the time series tables 3n pages 96 through lllby year and month dead are Persons who were declared of death. shown by year and month of death established in the findings of death made by the Chief, Casualty Branch, AGO (see "Declared Dead" on page 4). Geographic Area t-Table Consolidated battle casualty and death statistics are furnished in the table on page 118 entitled "Battle casualties and deaths, bY geeThe table contains graphic area of residence." columns for total battle casualties and for battle and nonbattle deaths of personnel in a batThese deaths among battle tle casualty status. casualties plus those of persons not in a battle casualty status (other nonbattle) comprise total Arm;y deaths. Pacific Area Theaters

and deaths reported by Battle casualties all commands in the Pacific area outside the except the Alaskan continental United States, Department, the U.S. Army Strategic Air Forces, and the commands inchina, Burma, and India have been consolidated under the desigl?ation "Pacific Theaters? This was necessary because the frequent changes in theater designations and boundthe presenaries in that area made impractical tation of statistics for the separate commands. 3attle casualties are shown separately for the China-Burma-India Theater, the China Theater and the India-Burma Theater in the tables entitype, and tled "Battle casualties by theater, (pages 8 and 9) and "Battle casualdisposition" ties in Air Corps and all other branches, by month, type, and dispositiontl (pages 10 through 45) In all other detailed tables which present statistics for these separate theater data, three theaters are consolidated under the designation "Burma , China, and India TheatersJ Statistics for the U. S. Army Strategic Air and deaths Forces consist of battle casualties of personnel in the XX and XXI Bomber Commands, and India which operated in the Burma, China, Theaters and Pacific Theaters, respectively. Organizational Statistics

45 sontains The table on pages 10 through time series data relating to the year and month and no{; to the of occurrence of each casualty, date of final disposition of the casual+;y. For example, a person initially reported as wounded in action who subsequently died of wounds is recorded as "Died of wounds" in the year and month in which he was wounded.
Battle and Nonbattle Death Tables

The tables on pages 96 through 117 provide data on all deaths of Arlqy military personnel. The battle deaths comprise persons who were killed in action, died of wounds and injuries received in action, or were declared dead from a missing in action status. The nonbattle deaths to battle consist of deaths not attributable causes, and include persons who died of disease or other nonbattle cause while In a battle casu-

The unit codes in the battle casualty statistical punched cards did not identify the specific combat divisions to which the divisional The association of unit to units were assigned. division was obtained from other sources such as passenger lists, Arq directosLation lists, and casualty punched cards submitted by ries, of World various oversea theaters at the close A publication entitled "Order of Battle War II. of the United States Army, European Theater of prepared by the Office of the TheaOperations/ ter Historian in December 1945, was particularly the organic elements of helpful in determining the combat divisions in that theater. The data for combat divisions 95 may be on pages 80 through in the tables understated in

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some instances because of the difficulties in decoding unit designations in the battle ualty statistical punched cards. met casfied, expanded, and restated the battle casualty categories and reporting procedures therefor. The explanations of the major categories (killed in action, died of wounds and injuries received in action, etc.), were not stated definitively in World War II reporting instructions. This undoubtedly resulted in differences in interpretations among the various oversea theaters. However, .it is believed that these interpretations were generally along the lines indicated below. Air Force Units - In tables containing organizational statistics, this term is used in connection with battle casualties suffered by personnel assigned to Arq Air Forces type units, including personnel of branches other than Air Corps assigned to such units. Battle Casualties - All persons killed in action, dead as a result of wounds or injuries received in action, wounded or injured in action, missing in action, captured by the opposing forces, or taken into custody by the authorities of a neutral country as internees. The term **in actiorQ* characterized the casualty status as having been incurred as a direct result of enemy action during an engagement or otherwis e 3 or sustained while immediately engaged in, going to, or returning from a combat , mission whether or not due to enemy action, Psychoneurosis and other mental disorders developed under battle conditions were specifically excluded from battle casualties by War Department Circular No. 195, dated 1 September 1943. This 1943 action represented not a change in policy but rather a clarification and explicit statement of the original intent. War Department Circular No. 142, dated 14 May 1945 excluded from battle casualties, injuries due to the elements (frostbite, trench foot, immersion foot, etc.). Since however, this circular was issued after V-E Day and after essentially all of the periods of high incidence of cold injury had passed, its effect is subject to question. It is known that in some theaters, directives were in effect for parts of the war period requiring the reporting of severe frostbite actually incurred in combat as battle casualties but excluding trench foot from such reporting. Battle deaths - All persons killed in action, dead as a result of wounds or injuries received in action, or declared dead from missing in action. This term excludes nonbattle deaths of personnel in a battle casualty status of captured, in action. interned, or missing 6 ee '*Deaths Among Battle Casualties.fr) Branch - In tables showing branch data, all battlecasualties, including deaths among such personnel, are distributed by the branch in which serving (duty branch) at the time the initial casualty was incurred. Nonbattle deaths, other than those of personnel in a battle casualty status of captured, interned,, or missing in action, are distributed by the branch in which serving at the time of death. Captured - All persons known to have been taken prisoner In case of by opposing forces, doubt as to whether an individual was actually captured,, he was reported as missing or missing in action,

The Orders of Battle and other sources utilized to determine the organic units of the comgenerally furnished the structure bat divisions of each division as of a specific date. Few composition of inchanges occurred in the unit fantry divisions, but changes in unit assignof certain ments resulting from reorganizations armored and airborne divisions affected to an unknown extent the validity of the statistics for those divisions. Air Force~unit data were tabulated from the statistical cards containing codes for Air Corps bomber, reconnaissance, 'branch units - fighter, and for units of other branches which etc., could be identified as Army Air Forces type engineer aviation battalions, quartermaster aviation truck companies, signal aviation service battalions, etc.
Campaign Statistics

The battle casualty statistical punched cards did not contain information concerning the specific campaign in which each battle casualty was engaged, since campaign designations, boundand inclusive dates were usually deteraries, mined after the casualty occurred and were often revised. Campaign names and dates for this report were obtained from War Department General Orders The following General Orders, Noa 24 (1947). which list the units entitled to campaign battle credits, were used to secure identifications of units engaged in each campaign: 59, 85, $7, 91,

93, 94, 96, 99, 102, 103, 114, 116, 118 (1945), 12, 107 (1946), 49 0947), 29, 63, 72 (1948), were then deand 6 (1950). Campaign statistics

veloped by utilizing the unit codes and battle casualty, dates appearing in the statistical cards. Unfortunately, neither the General Orders nor other readily available sources gave the exact dates of participation of the units in each campaign. It was necessary; therefore, to allocate to-a specific campaign all of the battle casualties of the participating units 'for the entire period of the campaign. The accuracy of the campaign statistics was also influenced by the following factors: the ' existence of campaigns with overlapping dates and areas and with common participating units (notably the Rhineland and Ardennes-Alsace camthe numerous changes in unit coding in paigns), the battle casualty statistical punched cards, the probability of errors in unit codes and casualty dates in the cards, and the tremendous task of relating battle casualty.data for the large number of units recorded in the General Orders listing units entitled to battle credits by campaign to the individual campaigns enumerated in General Orders No. 24 (1947). TERMINOLOGY Starting with Circular No. 21, dated 24 January 1942, many War Department circulars were issued which explained and progressively clari-

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Deaths Among Battle Casualties - All perdead as a result of sons killed in action, declared wounds or injuries received in action, dead from missing in action, and dead of nonbattle causes while in a battle casualty status of interned, or missing in action. (See captured, "Battle Deaths.") reDeclared Dead - All persons previously ported as missing or missing in action, who were no longer presumed to be living, and in whose cases a finding of death was made bythe Chief of the Casualty Branch, AGO, acting for the Secretary of War, pursuant to Section 5 of the 94Zssing Persons Act, If Public Law 490, 77th Congress, 7 March 1942, as amended. Findings of death were made upon or subsequent to 12 months and in a missing or missing in action status, were withheld so long as the person was presumed to be living. They included the date upon which the death was presumed to have occurred for the purposes of termination of crediting pay and allowances, settlements of accounts, and payments of death gratuities. Such date was never less the day of exthan a year and a day following piration of the 12 month period. The declared dead columns in this report include figures for those persons classified as declared dead from a missing in action status only. Persons declared dead from a missing status (other than missing are included in the nonbattle death in action) statistics. in the death tables, but are not separately identified. Died of Wounds and Injuries Received in Action - All persons wounded or injured in action whosubsequently died after reaching an aid station or other medical treatment facility, and personnel in a captured or interned status who died of wounds or injuries received in action. Divisions - In tables showing organizational statistics, data for divisions pertain to battle casualties suffered by personnel assigned to the Army combat divisions, including the organic elements of each, but excluding the nondivisional units attached to the divisions at various times. Grade - In tables showing grade data, all battlzualties, including deaths among such personnel, are distributed by the grade in which serving at the time the initial casualty was incurred. Nonbattle deaths, other than those among captured, interned, and missing in action personnel, are distributed by the grades in which serving at the time of death. Interned - All persons known to have been taken into custody by the authorities of a neutral country as internees. Killed in Action - Persons coming within the purview of "battle casualties,ll as defined above, who were killed outright, or who died of wounds or injuries before reaching an aid station or other medical treatment facility. T-his category includes persons in a captured status who were killed outright by air bombardment or while trying to escape. Missing - Persons whose whereabouts or actual fate could not be determined, who were not known to be in an unauthorized absence status, for whom there was no conclusive evidence of death or circumstances leading to a logical conclusion of death, and who were presumed not to have been within the purview of Itbattle casualties/r as defined above, at time of disappearance. Deaths of personnel initially reported in including declared dead cases, are this status, recorded in the nonbattle death columns of the death tables of this report, but not in the battle casualty tables, sirpiMissing in Action - A classification lar to that of missing, except that personnel in this status came within the purview of "battle casualties,rl as defined above, at time of disappearance. In the battle casualty tables of this report, persons initially reported in this status and later found to have been actually in another battle casualty status were removed from missing in action and placed in the other status. However, those who were declared dead or were returned to duty, and those who died of nonbattle causes are shown as subsequent dispositions from a missing in action status. In the death tables, persons missing in action who were declared dead are included in battle deaths, while those who died of nonbattle causes are included in nonbattle deaths. 'Nonbattle Deaths - In the battle casualty tables, this category consists solely of persons who died of disease or other nonbattle cause while in a captured, interned, or missing in action status. In the death tables, this category consists of all nonbattle deaths, Army-wide, and of those who died of nonbattle is comprised causes while in a battle casualty status of capas well tured, interned, or missing in action, as all other nonbattle deaths. Other Units tional data, this ties suffered by which were neither divisions nor Army In tables showing organizaterm refers to battle casualpersonnel assigned to units organic elements of combat Air Forces type units. .

Wounded and Injured in Action - Persons coming within the purview of *'battle casualties,1f as defined above, who were wounded or injured. This category includes all kinds of wounds and injuries received in action whether there was a piercing or tearing of the body, as in a penetrating wound, or none, as in a contused wound; fractures whether siqle or compound; burns, blasts, concussions, etc. This report includes only those wounded or injured in action personnel requiring hospitalization, except that those who died of wounds or injuries after reaching some type of medical treatment facility but before reaching a hospital are also included. Published 1 June 1953

SUMMARY
Battle casualties by type personnel, and theater: of casualty and disposition, type of 7 December 1941 - 31 December 1946

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55,958 35,984 31,057 2,309 1,974 644 60,014 30,157 38,504 2,109 23,747
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c40,.261 19w9o 161,7x 24,453 4,084 8,612 641,371 159,539 553,666 24,116 359,449 170,101 73 170,028

556,62$ 135,576 117,215 16,458 1,361 542 451,052 116,991 381,350 16,264 239,669 125,417
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175,107 40,455 3?% 3 978 44 134,652 35,313

111,125

157,938 5o,3e5 33,oy 5,889

16,586 .&L&8 7,195 359 830 74

8,128

Deaths among battle casualties . Killed in action. . . . . .. Died of wounds and injuries d Declared dead . . . . . . . . . Died of other causes (nonbattle) Other battle casualties g/ . . .

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. 23&87& 4 . I 192,798 . 26,762 . 6,058

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9,256 701,385 189,696

8,596 107,553 30,538

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6,854 4,674 261 3,283 1,130 8k 1,046 2&2 341

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9 Wounded and iniured

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in action . . ; . . . . 1 592,170 Died of wounds and injuries overseas . . 26,225 Returned to duty overseas . . . . . . . . 383,196 Evacuated to the United States . . . . . 182.7h9 Died of wounds and injuries . . . . . . 1 84 Returned to duty, discharged, etc. . . 182,665 12b.079 3,102

3,993 80,853 26,279

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95,021 5,707 59,391 29,923

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125,417 733759 224 194 532 72,809 &526 1,3x 10 13,157

26,279
20,182

29,923 27,465
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. . . . . . . Died of other causes (nonbattle) . . . . Returned to military control . . . . . . action ............. dead .......... other causes'(nonb&-kk)' to duty ............ below. Battle casualties

-453 9,098 111,426 3o,3uc 6,058 158 24,098

102,486 21,593 2,202 go=> 189 264 637 8,461 19&7 91,559 59744 1,974 7 3,763 24,570 4,084 151 20,335

64 63 44
20,011

8,452 16,358 4,91k. 2,889 144

1,881

20 Missing in 21 Declared Died of 22 Returned 23

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7,509

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by ty!->e of casualty and disposition, 7 December 1941 - 31 December 1946 Air Corps (incl. flight officers) 115,382

and du-tg branch:

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'Other Infantry

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Type of battle casualty .and disposition

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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

936,259 234,874 192,798 26,762 6,058 9,256 701,385 189,696 592,170 26,225 3g3,196
182,749

820,877

661,059 142,962 118,376 19,799 1,735 3,052 51s,o97 117,641. 471,376 l9,545 304,521 12tz+$ 147,242 >6,212 735 186 2,992 52,299 15330 1,735 60 14,035

42,692 2585 6,9F 1,701 176 729 33,107 6,868

29,068 1,680

29,806

87,320

Deaths among battle casualties . . . Killed in action g . . Died of wounds and inj&ieL 2' . . Declared dead . . . . . . . . . . . Died of other causes (nonbattle) ;f/ Other battle casualties g,/ . . . . .

52,173 i-&,520 1,140 3,603 1,910 63,209 44,785 18,364 1,004 12,661 4&B 4,698 41,057 735 135 1,893 38,294 i

182,701

147,278
25,622

2,455 7,346 631,176 u4,911 573,806

25,221

7,691 22,463 5,920 16,003 1,149 2,973 137 407 485 3,080 22,115 64,857 5,773 20,006 1,124 12,985 5, 5 5,892 14,629 53,356 2,872 34,298 16,186 7 16,179

8 Killed
10 11 12

in action

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

9 Wounded and injured

13 14

in --action . . . . Died of wounds and injuries overseas Returned to duty overseas . . . . . Evacuated to the United -- tates S . . Died of wounds and injuries . . . Returned to duty, discharged, etc.

84 182,665;

370,535 178,050 83 177,967

18,731 ~8,657 3 8,654 5,966

111 18

. . . . . . . . . . . 124,079 15 Captured and interned Killed in action . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 3,102 Died of wounds and injuries . . . . . . . 17 453 18 Died of other causes (nonbattle) . . . . 9,098 Returned to military control . . . . . . 111,426 19
20 21 22

9 318 2,3 7
7,205 73,132 19,138 2,455 14-l 16,542

706 5,131 790 m 23 591

3,518 17,326 147 1,374 20 94 472 3,035 2,879 12,823 509 1-37 13 359 2,009 407 45 1,557

Missing in Declared Died of Returned 23

action . . dead . . . other causes to duty .

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (nonbattle) . . . . . . . . . . .

. . . .

. . . .

0 14 + ,058 158 24,098

3, 03 17 7,556

d by ,,d ld d f/ eb/ y

Excludes Alaskan Department, U, S. Army Strategic Air Forces, and Burma, China, and India Theaters. Includes unreported theaters (theater unknown), and enroute personnel not chargeable to any command. Sum of lines 8, 9, 15, and 20. Sum of lines 8 and 16. Sum of lines 10, 13, and 17. Sum of lines 18 and 22. Excludes 83,403 nonbattle deaths of persons not in a battle casualty status. Sum of lines 11, 14, 19, and 23. warrant officers and female personnel. Includes general officers,

SUMMARY
Battle casualties by month of occurrence, duty branch, and theater group: 7 December 1941 - 31 December 1946

Duty Year and month of occurrence Total

branch

The

ater

group Theater unknown and enroute (not chargeable to any command)

Air Corps branch (including flight officers)

All other branches 4

Atlantic theaters

area .g

Pacific theaters

area' 4

Total

. . . .

936,259

_,, i'..." .:'~&..$r ,I 115,382

=o,g77 331 p,99g 762

765,751
11 4,028

169,635
1,080

873
2

194l December . . .
19.42 . . . . January February March . April . May . . June . . July . . August. September October November December . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

. 1,093
40,og 860 1,055
220

762 I,okLt 9s 192 63 142 4,704 139 109 169

35822

1,165 29,159 318 189

208

157 1,023 24,455 179 80 39 35 90 2,W 2,631

j52,881

863

42 50
8

818

192
0 0 0 1

7 47 69 34 52 96 140 2,060 1,423 60,217 1,529 5,942 4,297 5,061

2,638

1,005 212 1,157 28,966 231 152 156 153 168 1,046 1,758 13,206
1,821

146
18

. l \,. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ; . . 9 . .

3
0 0

249 315 3,110 3,194 73,952 3,353 6,674 4,583 5,310 4,088 1,597
10,466

225 426 563

2l-4

7 4 13 3 412 4 4 35
10

'1943

. . . . January February March . April . May . . June . . July. . August . September October November December

v? 98 1,125 710 935 1,356 1,311 2,381 2,605 1,634 2,751 2,596 2,699 66,290 w-86 4,896 5,024 7,651 6,543 6,785 6,769 6,101 5,014 3,957 4,874 5,190 lw% 3,797 4,068 5,505 3,536 1,273 796 546 294
10

2,385 5,549 3,873 4,375 2,;;; 8,085 4,548 5,176 3,889 6,875 5,108 455,100 10,329 12;839 7,321 3,803 16,518 48,535 59,137 45,476 52,136 49,831 66,830 82,345
278,878

222

320
282

1,204
6,783

245 1,415 383 3,679 1,692 879 476 1,269 745 42,893
1,106

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
.

7,153 6,810 6,640 9,471 7,807 321,390 13,815 17,735 12,345 11,454 23,061 55,320 65,906 51,577 57,150 53,788 71,704 87,535 298,714
78,828

5,419 5,930 6,157

8,200

4 42
1

7
2

7,057 478,389 12,707 15,837 9,005 10,054 21,239 49,061 61,454 49,458 54,937 47,725 65,W 80,994 w 431603 56,282 49,706
2,201 82

5108 -2

1944

. . . . . January . February . March . . April . '. May June. . . 4. July . . . August . . September October . November . December .
. . l

. . . . .
.

. . . . . . . . . . . . .
.

1,890 3,337 1,394 1,819 6,247 4,439 2,107 2,206

3 6 3
12

. . . . . . . . . . .
.

13
12

6,058
5,777 6,513

28

7 5 9

1945

. . . . January February Harch . April May June . .

l . l

. . . . .
.

65,367
18,081

%,3-U
7,913 1,369 697 58
21

75,031

69,%0

66&d+
16,sos 7,117

52,280 59,-

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

7;,136 ,252 12,74-b 9,077 20,266 15,879 7,830 1,332

0 5

July. . August . September October November December

24
28 10

4 5
2

823 403 48 17 19 26 4

36 13
12 11 11

683
10

46 13 4

23 5 553

1. 1 0 0 0 1 .O 12

1946

. . . . . . . . . .

6 373

5 493

Date unknown

1,058

685

d Includes general office'rs, warrant officers, and fe-male personnel. Caribbean Defense Command and South Atlantic, European bJ Africa - fiddle East Theater, Theater. China - Burma i India Theater, China Theater, India - Burma Theater, d Alaskan Department, Army Strategic Air Forces.

Theater, Pacific

and Mediterranea Theaters, and U. S.

SUMMARY
Battle casualties by grade in which serving and duty branch:

7 December 1941 - 31 December 1946

Battle Grade in which serving Total

casualties Air Corps branch.

d All other branches bf

Deat 1s among battle Air Corps branch

casualties All other branches bf 182,701

12,810

Total

Total.............. Officers . ; . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

936,259 95,998 93,074 e."y".-.--I',', ..p..~-^ ,,_.I -27-r 72 403 1,192 1,978 9,669 35,003 44,757 2,924 90
218

115,382 49,385 x . 46,769 _,,_... ' c _,..I C f

111

=o,g77 46,613 ,4 46,305 ~,- -. , ._,,, d 72 292 978 1,334 7,088 19,330 17,211 303 -90
218 0

234,874 35,984 34,710

121 440

52,173 23,174 22,022 fC 44 102 358

1,386

Commissioned

. . .

. . . .
: .

12,688 d 25
77
338-
466
2,115.
5,168
4,499

122
1

General. ............ Colonel ............... ......... Lieutenant colonel Major ................ Captain ................ First Lieutenant .......... .......... Second Lieutenant Warrant and flight

25

214 644 2,581 15,673 27,546 2,616

0 0

824 3,501 13,240 $559 1,274 45 77 1,152 19s,s90 1,077 7,748 '24,717 2&777 18,086 65,662 56,m

8,072 12,060 1,152

0 0

. . . . . . . . . . .

Chief warrant officer . . . . . . . e Warrant officer, junior grade . . . . Flight officer . . . . . . . . . . . Enlisted.personnel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3rd grade grade . . , . . . . . . . . . grade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

2,616 840,261 3,870 24,614 83,540 92,487 54,250 302,558 278,942

2,616 65,997 375

11,171

45 77.
0

1,152 28,999 199 4,717 12,527 7,154 2,132 919 1,351

774,264 3,495 13,443 54;002 76,328 5o,og7 300,636 276,273

169,891 878 3,031 12,190 17,623 15,954 64,743 55,472

Master and first sergeant . Technical sergeant . . . . Staff sergeant and technician Sergeant and technician 4th Corporal and technician 5th Private first class . . . . Private . . . . . . . . . . d Includes deaths among battle Ir/ Includes female personnel. d Recorded as "General officers"

29,538 16,159 4,163 1,922 2,669

casualties. in branch tables of this report regardless of duty branch.

Battle

and nonbattle deaths by type of death and duty branch: 7 December 1941 - 31 December 1946

Type of death

Total

Air Corps branch (including flight officers)

All other branches d

Total........................... Deaths among battle , casualties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e . . . . . . . . , . . . .

318,274 234,$7i 225,618 192,798 26,762

$8,119

230,155

182,701

52,173 50,263 45,520 1,140 3,603 1,910 1,893 5-7 35,946

Battle deaths . . . . . . . . . . . *. . . . . . . . . Killed in action . . . :. . . . . . . . w. . . . Died of wounds and injuries received inaction . . Declared dead from missing in action . . . .. . . . Nonbattle deaths Died of other ca~s~s'(h,;ib,t~lk,'w~iie'~c~pC1;-eh. Died of other causes (nonbattle) while missing Other nonbattle d Includes bJ Consists deaths g

6,058
9,256 9,098 158

175,355 147,278 25,622 2,455 7,346 7,205

br'iktkAe& in action

. . . .

. . . . . . . e . . . . . . . . . . . .

83,400

47,454

general officers, warrant officers, and female personnel. of nonbattle deaths of personnel not in' a battle casualty

status;