U.S. Army Korean
War Casualties
Total Combat Losses by Unit and by Type from:
Korean Battle
Chronology

by Richard E. Ecker

A battle-by-battle history of the Korean War.

Published by McFarland & Company, Inc.
Box 611, Jefferson, NC 28640

www.mcfarlandpub.com

Korean Battle Chronology is a history of U.S. involvement in the war as told through its casualties--by the dates they occurred, their causes, their numbers, the battles in which they were sustained and the units in which they occurred. It documents 109,935 U.S. Army combat casualties, both fatal and non-fatal, and 6,276 fatalites for the other services (4,610 Marine Corps, 1,200 Air Force and 466 Navy). It also provides a historical context for each of these losses. The data recorded in Korean Battle Chronology were produced from databases that list every recorded casualty by name.

This web site will give you a summary of the data recorded in the book for all U.S. Army combat losses in the war, by unit and by the type of casualty. Although almost 600 different Army units reported casualties in the war, most losses were reported by eleven major participating units (eight divisions and three regimental combat teams). Each of these units is represented by an icon below, which will serve as a button to access the table listing that unit's casualties. For infantry divisions, you will find the data listed by divisional units (regiments, artillery battalions, engineer and armored units etc.) Supporting units for the regimental combat teams are also listed. Within regiments, no further identification of unit of assignment (i.e., battalion or company) was made.

The last button in the group below, represented by the 8th Army patch, will access a table listing casualties for all non-divisional units in which combat losses were significant.



Casualties in the tables are listed in the following six categories:

Casualty Type__________________Abbreviation
Killed in Action........................................................KIA
Wounded in Action................................................WIA
Captured/Returned to Military Control...POW/RTD
Captured/Died in Captivity.......................POW/Died
Missing/Returned to Military Control.........MIA/RTD
Missing/Declared Dead.............................MIA/Died


To retrieve a table of total Korean War battle losses for any of the U.S. Army units listed below, click on its patch.


1st Cavalry Division


2nd Infantry Division


3rd Infantry Division


7th Infantry Division


24th Infantry Division


25th Infantry Division


40th Infantry Division


45th Infantry Division


5th Regimental Combat Team


29th Regimental Combat Team


187th Airborne RCT


Non-divisional units

This web site was produced by Omega Communications,
Reproduced on the Korean War Educator with permission.