Appendix D: Marine Casualties¹

Location and Date	KIA		DOW		WIA		MIAPD		KDPOW		Total
Marines:	Off.	Enl.	Off.	Enl.	Off.	Enl.	Off.	Enl.	Off.	Enl.	Off.	Enl.
Guam (7-10 Dec 41)		4		1		13				5		23
Wake Atoll (7-23 Dec 41)    [Civilian]	4	46 [12]			6	38 [70]		6		13* [~100]*	10	103
Philippines (7 Dec 41-6 May 42)	43	267		5	33	324		16	14	225	90	837
Midway Islands (7 Dec 41-6 Jun 42)	2	8	1		14	25	23	14			40	47
Makin (17-18 Aug 42)	1	17			2	14		12			3	43
Guadalcanal (7 Aug 42-8 Feb 43)	71	1,026	11	98	223	2,693	52	246			357	4,063
Naval Medical Personnel Organic to Marine Units
Philippines (7 Dec 41-6 May 42)					2				3	25	5	25
Guadalcanal (7 Aug 42-8 Feb 43)	8	23	1	4	15	86					24	113
TOTALS	129	1,391	13	108	295	3,193	75	294	17	268	529	5,254

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Footnotes

[1] These final Marine casualty figures were compiled from records furnished by Statistics Unit, PersAcctSec, (RecsBr, PersDept, HQMC). They are audited to include 26 Aug 52. Naval casualties were taken from NavMed P-5021, The History of the Medical Department of the Navy in World War II, 2 vols (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1943), II, 1-84.

The key to the abbreviations used at the head of columns in the table follows:

• KIA, Killed in Action
• DOW, Died of Wounds
• WIA, Wounded in Action
• MIAPD, Missing in Action, Presumed Dead
• KDPOW, Killed or Died while a Prisoner of War

Because of the method used in reporting casualties during World War II a substantial number of DOW figures are also included in the WIA column.

[2] 368 Marine, 60 Navy, 5 Army, and 1,104 civilian personnel were taken prisoner after the surrender of Wake. 3-4% (~17) of the military prisoners died during their captivity, including 2 Marines and 3 sailors whose heads were chopped off and bodies mutilated and thrown overboard from the Nitta Maru, en route from Yokohama to the POW camp near Shanghai.

16% (~180) of the civilian prisoners died during their captivity, including 98 murdered on Wake in October of 1943.