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C o P Y Department of Defense REPORT OF BATTLE CASUALTIES (Based on notifications to next of kin cumulated through midnight Friday 25 August 1950) Total, Dept. Marine Air of Defense Army Navy Corps Force 1. TOTAL CASUALTIES (Sum of items 3, 4 and 5) 6,901 6,567 27 194 113 2. TOTAL DEATHS (Sun of items 3,4a, and 5a) 503 394 10 73 26 3. Killed in action - Total 443 343 9 66 25 4. Wounded in action - Total 3,904 3,740 13 127 24 a.. Died of wounds 60 51 1 7 1 b. Other (current wounded, re- turned to duty, evacuated to the U.S., etc.) 3,844 3,689 12 120 23 5. Missing in action - Total 2,554 2,484 5 1 64 a. Presumed or declared dead 0 0 0 0 0 b. Returned to military control 70 54 O 0 16 C. Captured or interned 48 46 O 0 2 d. Current missing 2,436 2,384 5 1 46 Note: These figures represent cumulative casualties for which notification to next of kin was effected through midnight Friday, 25 August 1950. They do not reflect all casualties which have occurred up to that time, because of the time lapse required to receive notifications of individual casualties from the Far East and to verify and process these notifications in the headquarters of each service. The data indicate the cumulative number of permanent and temporary losses from effective military strength as the result of enemy action, not ne- cessarily the number of individuals affected. AND 2 Progress Reports and Statistics Office of Secretary of Defense 30 August 1950

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