Appendix H
Marine Casualties1
Location and Date KIA DOW WIA MIAPD TOTAL Off Enl Off Enl Off Enl Off Enl Off Enl Marines Peleliu
(6Sep-14Oct44)66 984 18 232 301 5,149 0 36 385 6,401 Iwo Jima
(19Feb-26Mar45)215 4,339 60 1,271 826 16,446 3 43 1,104 22,099 Aviation3 66 49 3 6 91 212 44 32 204 299 Sea-duty 4 61 0 9 8 142 0 63 12 275 Total Marines 351 5,433 81 1,518 1,226 21,949 47 174 1,705 29,074 Navy Medical Personnel
Organic to Marine Units4Peleliu 1 49 0 11 11 238 0 0 12 298 Iwo Jima 4 183 0 22 19 622 0 0 23 827 Marine Aviation5 0 2 0 0 2 10 0 0 4 10 Total Navy 5 234 0 33 32 870 0 0 39 1,135 Grand Total 356 667 0 1,551 1,258 22,817 47 174 1,744 30,209
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1. These final Marine casualty figures were compiled from records furnished by Statistics Unit, Personnel Accounting Section, Records Branch, Personnel Department, HQMC. Figures for the Peleliu Operation were certified and released on 1 June 1950; those for Iwo Jima in August 1952. Naval casualties were taken from NavMed P-5021, The History of the Medical Department of the Navy in World War II (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1953). The key to the abbreviations used at the head of columns in the table follows: KIA, Killed in Action; DOW, Died of Wounds; WIA, Wounded in Action; MIAPD, Missing in Action, Presumed Dead. Because of the casualty reporting method used during World War II, a substantial number of DOW figures are also included in the WIA column. Footnotes
2. Includes Ngesebus.
3. Includes bypassed Marshalls, Carolines, Palau, Philippines, and Volcano-Bonin Islands, overall period covering February 1944-June 1945.
4. See Footnote (1) above.
5. Time frame identical to (3) above.