WAR
FAR FROM OVER
Casualties
Mount As War Enters Fourth Year
WASHINGTON,
D.C.—The War Department has released casualty numbers for the European theater
for November: 57,775, including 8259 dead. Since D-Day, the total casualty
figure for American forces in Europe now stands at 258,124. Casualties in the
Pacific theater remain high due to the ferocity of the enemy. The recent action
on Leyte in the Philippines illustrates this; thirty-seven Japanese were killed
for every one American killed. Total Japanese casualties on Leyte have been
placed at 82,554 to just 10,409 American casualties. Since the beginning of the
war on December 7, 1941, total casualties for all American armed forces has
reached 536,950. The number missing in action since the beginning of the war is
up to 57,514.
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