Appendix E
Strength and Casualty Figuresa Excludes strength in Italy for July 1944 through June 1945 and in Southern France for August 1944 through November 1944 assigned to Mediterranean Theater of Operations. TABLE 7--ASSIGNED STRENGTH OF U.S. ARMY FORCES IN EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS,
JUNE 1944-JULY 1945a
End of Month Total
StrengthLocation Type On
ContinentUnited
KingdomAir Ground Service Otherb 1944 July 1,770,614 790,519 980,095 365,429 749.476 355,805 299,904 August 1,904,709 1,017,817 886,892 377,325 838,108 374,054 315,222 September 2,053,417 1,353,079 700,338 429,671 928,042 402,192 293,512 October 2,203,583 1,401,165 802,418 426,266 1,095,682 419,156 262,479 November 2,588,983 1,921,481 667,502 435,692 1,337,981 506,889 308,421 December 2,699,467 2,048,421 651,046 438,428 1,410,514 522,142 328,383 1945 January 2,829,039 2,184,184 644,855 432,304 1,484,330 534,700 377,705 February 2,934,924 2,329,042 605,882 429,822 1,585,242 551,466 368,394 March 3,029,579 2,539,334 490,245 438,051 1,644,986 565,221 381,321 April 3,065,505 2,623,086 442,419 447,482 1,671,008 572,478 374,537 May 3,021,483 2,639,377 382,106 442,155 1,703,613 580,497 295,218 June 2,811,820 2,488,406 323,414 368,064 1,682,593 568,876 192,287 b Theater overhead, replacements, patients in hospitals and personnel iun process oftransfer out of theater.
Source: Location, AGO, Machine Records Branch, "Strength of Army, STM-30"; Type, Office, Chief of Staff USA, SARO report, "Strength of Army"; respective months.
a Excludes those initially reported as missing in action but subsequently determined to have been killed in action, wounded in action, captured orinterned. Such determinations were deleted from Missing and added to the appropriate category. TABLE 8--BATTLE CASUALTIES OF U.S. ARMY IN EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS,
JUNE 1944-MAY 1945
Month Total Killed
in
ActionWounded in Action Captured or Interned Missing in Actiona Returned
to DutyDied of
WoundsReturned
to DutyDied prior
to ReleaseReturned
to DutyDied Total 552,117 104,812 360,6661 16,012q 56,646 855 12,056 1,075 1944 Jun 30,367 9,379 24,210 1,318 3,384 39 902 135 Jul 51,424 10,891 34,771 1,8876 3,041 27 763 55 Aug 42,535 9,111 27,733 1,558 2,782 21 1,264 66 Sep 42,183 8,830 25,934 1,495 4,743 37 1,011 133 Oct 31,617 6,119 20,436 983 3,203 25 760 91 Nov 62,437 11,260 43,957 1,569 4,235 48 1,231 137 Dec 77,726 12,795 40,407 1,834 19,339 495 2,647 209 1945 Jan 69,119 10,391 47,849 1,566 8,215 129 865 104 Feb 39,414 7,202 28,628 1,010 1,928 17 592 37 Mar 53,209 10,483 36,821 1,512 3,274 10 1,053 56 Apr 41,048 7,994 28,469 1,224 2,425 4 891 51 May 2,028 357 1,446 67 77 3 77 1 Source: AGO, Statistical and Accounting Branch, "Army Battle Casualties and Nonbattle Deaths in WW II, Final Report," 1953.
TABLE 9--BRITISH AND CANADIAN STRENGTHS, NORTHWEST EUROPE, 1944-45 a Includes RAF and Royal Navy personnel. The totals under this column, broken down onlky in the 31 October 1944 report and the 16 June 1945 report, show for the former 82,902 RAF and 8,142 RN personnel; for the 1944 date they show 93,013 RAF and 20,856 RN personnel. The RAF figure of 93,013 is quite near the figure of 96,078 (plus 1,308 WAAF) for 1 May 1945 given in a statement furnished to OCMH by the Air Ministry, London.
Date Total Strengtha British Canadian 31 October 1944 895,912 b771,267 124,645 <8 November 1944/td> 925,664 807,028 118,636 31 May 1945 1,095,744 907,553 188,191 16 June 1945 c1,072.717 890,285 182,432
b Because the strength reports for the other three dates do not include personnel in hospitals, this figure does not include the 13,893 listed in hospitals in the report of 31 October 1944. It does include 2,815 women.
c Does not include women.Source: Caginet Office, Historical Section, London.
Note. These statistics must be used with the warning that they cannont be the basis ofcomparison between the U.S. and British air efforts. U.S. air strengths listed in Table 7 inlcude the air forces both in the United Kingdom and on the Continent. The British forces in this table include only those on the Continent. Total British air force strength (including WAAF) amounted to 819,578 on 1 May 1945. Needless to say a considerable part of this force was used in the preinvasion period and during the campaigns in northwest Europe in support ofthe Allied campaigns.
TABLE 10--BATTLE CASUALTIES OF THE BRITISH 21 ARMY GROUP, D DAY TO V-E DAYa a Including firm figures to 0600 hours, 1 April 1945.
Formation Total Casualties Killed Wounded Missing 21 Army Group 191,219 41,044 131,386 18,789 British 141,291 b b b Canadian 43,249 b b b Polish 5,598 b b b Dutch 127 b b b Belgian 364 b b b Czech 590 b b b
b Breakdown not furnished.Source: 21 Army Group "A" SITREP No. 337, compiled by Q(AE) STATS (Quartermaster [Army Equipment] Statistics, 14 May 1945.
Note: The figures in this table, supplied by British authorities, are presented in the absence of any more definitive report and must be used with the understanding that they are subject to considerable error. They do not include air casualties, and they were compiled too soon to have the Missing total corrected. A revised British figure would probably show a sizable Captured total as well as a higher Killed total and smaller Missing total than the ones above. A comparison of the Missing figure above with the corrected figure given for U.S. forces in Table 8 will give some idea of the difference. The British figures are likely to be less accurate than the U.S. casualty figures of Table 8, inasmuch as the latter tabulation was prepared in 1953 on the basis of later data. The statistics of this table are useful for purposes of indicating the size of the British and Canadian casualties but not for purposes of exact comparison with U.S. statistics. As an example of variations in casualty figures one may note that a different casualty report (known as AG Hot Spot Casualties-Northwest Europe), which summarizes British, Canadian, and Royal Marine losses from D Day to 30 April 1945 shows a casualty total of 196,980 as compared to the 14 May 1945 cumulative figure above of 191,219.
TABLE 11--BATTLE CASUALTIES OF FRENCH ARMY, 8 NOVEMBER 1942-8 MAY 1945 Source: Office, Chief of Staff, Ministry of National Defense, France.
Area and Date Total Killed
in
ActionWounded
in
ActionCaptured Missing
in
ActionTotal 115,600 24,209 80,355 6,081 5,135 North Africa, 1942-1943 18,023 5,187 7,342 2,088 3,406 Italy, 1943-1945 30,751 6,255 23,500 117 879 Northern Europe, 1944-1945 66,826 12,587 49,513 3,876 850
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