49,498 Battle Deaths
in U.S. Overseas Army
Washington, Aug. 13—Final casualty reports from the central
records office of the A.E.F. in France, made public by the war department gave
the total battle deaths as 49,498, total wounded 205,690, and prisoners, 4,480.
“Only slight revisions” will be made in this report, it was announced.
Recent corrections in the list of missing have reduced the
number to only 127 names, as compared with 264,000 for France and 121,000 for
England. To July 1, the army had reported 149,433 cases of disabled soldiers to
the war risk insurance bureau. It was estimated that the final total would be
close to $200,000.
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