Appendix M
Marine Casualties¹

Okinawa (1Apr-22Jun45)	KIA		DOW		WIA		MIAPD		TOTAL
	Offi- cer	Enli- sted	Offi- cer	Enli- sted	Offi- cer	Enli- sted	Offi- cer	Enli- sted	Offi- cer	Enli- sted
ReconBn, FMFPac	0	3	0	0	3	10	0	0	2	13
IIIAC Troops	0	18	1	4	14	148	0	0	15	170
IIIAC Artillery	1	10	1	11	11	458	1	1	14	480
1st Marine Division	56	1,036	13	149	311	6,094	0	6	380	7,285
RCT-8	1	36	0	11	11	317	0	0	12	364
6th Marine Division	27	1,337	18	274	388	7,041	1	10	434	8,662
2d Marine Aircraft Wing	24	21	0	9	51	1162	28	3	103	195
Replacement Drafts2	1	157	1	28	9	735	0	1	11	921
Miscellaneous Air3	4	0	1	0	9	11	4	0	18	11
Miscellaneous Ground4	0	16	0	8	0	117	0	0	0	141
Total Casualties	114	2,634	35	494	806	15,093	34	21	989	18,242
Marine Ships Detachments	1	47	0	1	8	97	0	10	9	155
Marine Carrier Air Detachments	10	40	0	0	7	6	2	0	19	46
Grand Total Marine Casualties	125	2,721	35	495	821	15,196	36	31	1,017	18,443
Naval Medical Personnel5 Organic to Marine Units	1	108	0	9	12	430	0	0	13	547
Grand Total	126	2,829	35	504	833	15,626	36	31	1,030	1,990

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Footnotes

1. These final Marine casualty figures were compiled from records furnished by Statistics Unit, Personnel Accounting Section, Records Branch, Personnel Department, HQMC. They are audited to include 26 August 1952. 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. Because of the casualty- reporting method used during World War II, a substantial number of DOW figures are also included in the WIA column.

2. Most members of replacement drafts who became casualties did so as member of regular combat units. In many instances, these men were hit before official notice of their transfer reached Headquarters Marine Corps, and therefore, they are carried on the casualty rolls as members of the various drafts.

3. Included in the miscellaneous categories are three men whose personnei records still showed them as members of units not part of Tenth Army when the report of their becoming a casualty reached Headquarters Marine Corps.

4. This category includes the casualties suffered by the 2d Marine Division while it was in the Okinawa area.

5. Compiled from NavMed P­5021, The History of the Medical Department of the Navy in World War II, 2 vols (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1953), II, pp. 1-84.