DAILY CASUALTIES IN NEXT WAR
(Received May 11, 7.30 p.m.)
WASHINGTON, May 10.
Colonel A. G. Love, an American Army Officer, addressing the international conference on military medicine and pharmacy, said that the American Army recommended that provision should be made for 150 casualties daily among each 1000 infantrymen engaged in the next war. Death would claim 24, 96 would suffer from gunshot wounds and 30 would be gassed. The figures were based on close studies of war casualty probabilities.
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Southland Times, Issue 23815, 12 May 1939, Page 5
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