U.S. WAR CASUALTIES
NAVY AND ARMY FIGURES Rugby, May 18. United States war casualties total 81.966. states an official Washington announcement. The Naw Department gave the names of 1044 naval officers and men I held prisoner bv the Japanese, disclosing for the i’rst time that at least a few men su”dved the fat« o F lh° heavy cruiser Houston, which disappeared during the battle of the Java Sea. The complete casualtv total arrived at by combining the Navy Denartment’s reports included: Dead. 1 3.296: wounded. 16.965: musing, 6,406; prisoners of war, 15,288. A War Department renort to March 17 show« Armv casualties totalling 56.942, Of these 6076 were killed. 12 277 wounded. 24.345 missing and 14 244 prisoners of war. Of the wounded. 4047 have returned to active duty or have been release ’ from hospital A Naw Departmenf remrt tn Ma\ 17 shows casi’alties 1 nulling 25.013 mad* un of 7220 dead. wounded, 112,061 missing ana 1044 prisoners.— 8.0.W.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 118, 21 May 1943, Page 3
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