Merrill's Marauders - Annex No. 1: Casualties

CASUALTIES FOR THE 5307TH COMPOSITE UNIT (PROVISIONAL)
February to June, 1944

	Casualties	Percent of casualties
		Actual	Estimated before operation
BATTLE CASUALTIES:
Battle deaths	93
Nonbattle deaths	30
Wounded in action	293 (19)
Missing in action	8
SUBTOTAL	424	14	35
DISEASE CASUALTIES:
Amoebic dysentery	503
Typhus fever	149
Malaria	296 20
Psychoneurosis	72
Miscellaneous fevers (approx.)	950
SUBTOTAL	1970	66	50
TOTAL	2394	80	85

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Notes

19. These are the official figures of The Adjutant General's battle casualty roster for hospitalized wounded. Many cases of light battle casualties were not evacuated but treated by unit surgeons and consequently not reported in hospital returns. Therefore, complete statistics are not obtainable. The actual number of wounded at Nhpum Ga alone exceed the official total for the entire campaign.
20. 296 is the number of malaria cases evacuated. Nearly every member of the force had it in more or less severe form.

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