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The US Army campaigns of World War II and their toll in army dead
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WWII Campaign Deaths

 

Atlantic Area Campaigns

Division

Air

Other

Total

Air Offensive, Europe (ETO)

4 Jul 1942–5 Jun 1944

0

7,504

0

7,504

Algeria-French Morocco (MTO)

8 Nov 1942–11 Nov 1942

253

23

203

479

Anzio (MTO)

22 Jan 1944–24 May 1944

4,520

0

1,018

5,538

Ardennes-Alsace (ETO)

16 Dec 1944–25 Jan 1945

14,973

1,314

2,959

19,246

Central Europe (ETO)

22 Mar 1945–11 May 1945

11,843

1,633

1,533

15,009

Egypt-Libya (MTO)

11 Jun 1942–12 Feb 1943

0

997

0

997

Naples-Foggia (MTO)

air: 18 Aug 1943–21 Jan 1944

ground: 9 Sep 1943–21 Jan 1944

2,604

1,599

2,063

6,266

Normandy (ETO)

6 Jun 1944–24 Jul 1944

12,923

2,506

864

16,293

North Apennines (MTO)

10 Sep 1944–4 Apr 1945

4,903

3,070

513

8,486

Northern France (ETO)

25 Jul 1944–14 Sep 1944

13,850

2,261

1,733

17,844

Po Valley (MTO)

5 Apr 1945–8 May 1945

1,297

258

359

1,914

Rhineland (ETO)

15 Sep 1944–21 Mar 1945

40,293

4,761

5,356

50,410

Rome-Arno MTO)

22 Jan–9 Sep 1944

5,032

4,808

1,553

11,393

Sicily (MTO)

air: 14 May 1943–

ground: 9 Jul 1943–

1,434

753

385

2,572

Southern France (MTO)

15 Aug 1944–14 Sep 1944

961

4,524

1,816

7,301

Tunisia (MTO)

air: 12 Nov 1942–13 May 1943

ground: 17 Nov 1942–13 May 1943

1,993

309

536

2,838

Pacific Area Campaigns

Division

Air

Other

Total

Air Offensive, Japan

17 Apr 1942–2 Sep 1945

0

3,602

0

3,602

Aleutian Islands (NP)

3 Jun 1943 –24 Aug 1943

457

239

122

818

Bismarck Archipelago (SWPA)

15 Dec 1943-

64

264

18

346

Burma, 1942 & India-Burma, 7 Dec –28 Jan 1945 (CBI)

0

1,922

875

2,797

Central Burma (CBI)

29 Jan 1945–15 Jul 1945

0

357

195

552

Central Pacific (CP)

7 Dec 1941–6

41

360

116

517

China Defensive (CBI)

4 Jul 1942–4 May 1945

0

192

2

194

China Offensive (CBI)

5 May 1945–2 Sep 1945

0

44

3

47

East Indies (SWPA)

1 Jan 1942–22 Jul 1942

0

427

34

461

Eastern Mandates (CP)

air: 7 Dec 1943–16 Apr 1944

ground: 31 Jan 1944–14 Jun 1944

175

218

41

434

Guadalcanal (SP)

7 Aug 1942–21 Feb 1943

527

150

35

712

Leyte, Luzon & Southern Philippines

17 Oct 44–4 Jul 1945 (SWPA)

12,679

1,539

2,015

16,233

New Guinea (SWPA)

24 Jan 1943–31 Dec 1944

1,585

2,533

566

4,684

Northern Solomons (SP)

22 Feb 1943–21 Nov 1944

1,285

406

83

1,774

Papua (SWPA)

23 Jul 1942–23 Jan 1943

218

104

21

343

Philippine Islands (SWPA)

7 Dec 1941–10 May 1942

0

3,387

10,460

13,847

Ryukyus (CP)

26 Mar 1945–2 Jul 1945

4,320

18

380

4,718

Western Pacific (CP)

air: 17 Apr 1944–2 Sep 1945

ground: 15 Jun 1944–2 Sep 1945

1,945

925

196

3,066

Unclassified

 

 

 

 

Campaigns not identifiable

& Organizations undetermined

0

815

3,643

1,181

5,639

 

 

Commentary for the above table of WWII US Army campaigns:
  • This table serves for both Army ground forces and air forces.
  • The parentheses in the first column refer to the theater in which the campaign was waged. ETO - European Theater of Operations, MTO - Mediterranean Theater of Operations, NP - North Pacific, SP - South Pacific, CP - Central Pacific, SWPA - Southwest Pacific Area, CBI - China-Burma-India Theater.
  • The Division column refers to deaths of divisional troops. 
  • Three of the campaigns, Air Offensive, Europe (prior to D-Day), Egypt-Libya, and Air Offensive, Japan were strictly Army Air Force campaigns. Other Army Air Force deaths were distributed among ground campaigns, with the exception of the Anzio campaign, which was assigned zero air deaths.
  • There were never any US units of division size in the CBI Theater or in the East Indies. However, the source document is in error by omitting the Philippine Division, which was destroyed in the Philippine Islands Campaign in 1942.
  • Death counts in the Papua Campaign are obviously wrong, being too small. Other death counts, such as air deaths in different theaters, are probably wrong.
  • The US Navy list of WWII campaigns was quite different.

I prepared this table from the following source: