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Military historian John Shy subsequently estimated the total killed in action at 8,000, and argued that the number of wounded was probably far higher, about 25,000. [91] The "other" deaths are primarily from disease, including prisoners who died on British prison ships .
Of this figure, 1,922 had been killed in action. An additional 20,769 were wounded in action. [1] 18 operatives of the Central Intelligence Agency were also killed during the conflict. [2] Further, there were 1,822 civilian contractor fatalities. [3]
The number of casualties is simply the number of members of a unit who are not available for duty. For example, during the Seven Days Battles in the American Civil War (June 25 to July 1, 1862) there were 5,228 killed, 23,824 wounded and 7,007 missing or taken prisoner for a total of 36,059 casualties.
The Australian forces in Afghanistan have suffered 41 fatalities (34 in action) [15] 261 soldiers have been wounded. [16]Also, at least one Australian civilian (David Savage, formerly a senior officer with the Department of Foreign Affairs working as an adviser to AusAID) was wounded in Afghanistan.
5,099 Killed in action; 14,232 wounded; 4 missing in action [116] Australia. 426 killed in action, 74 died of other causes [117] 3,129 wounded [117] 6 missing in action (all accounted for and repatriated) [118] Thailand. 351 killed in action [116] [119] 1,358 wounded; 200+ captured [120] New Zealand. 37 killed in action plus 2 civilians [121 ...
Joint British-U.S. airstrikes targeting Yemen's Houthi rebels killed at least 16 people and wounded 35 others, the rebels said Friday, the highest publicly acknowledged death toll from the ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Army on Friday released the names of two of the soldiers killed when the military Black Hawk in which they were flying collided with a passenger jet, but said, in an ...
This article lists battles and campaigns in which the number of U.S. soldiers killed was higher than 1,000. The battles and campaigns that reached that number of deaths in the field are so far limited to the American Civil War, World War I, World War II, Korean War, one campaign during the Vietnam War (the Tet Offensive from January 30 to September 23, 1968) and one campaign during the Iraq ...