Table 4. USAAF Casualties In European, North African, and Mediterranean
Theaters of Operation, 1942-1946 (Derived from Department of the Army,
"Army Battle Casualties and Nonbattle Deaths in World War Il-Final Report"
[Washington, DC: Dept of Army, GPO, June 1, 1953],
19531, pp. 84-88)
Killed in Action
ETO
North Africa and MTO
Total KIA
23,805
9,997
33,802
Wounded and Injured in Action (Died of wounds)
ETO
9,299
(510)
NATO and MTO
4,428
(276)
Total wounded
13,727
(786)
Captured and Interned (POWs dying in captivity)
ETO"
NATO and MTO
Total captured
26,064
(148)
7,350
(54)
33,414
(202)
Missing in Action (returned to duty)
ETO
North Africa and MTO
Total MIA
2,853
(2,316)
3,642
(3,125)
6,495
(5,441 )
Total Casualties (ETO)
62,021
Total Casualties (North Africa) and MTO
25,417
Total AAF (All theaters) KIA
44,785
Total AAF (All theaters) Wounded or Injured in Action
(Died in Captivity)
18,364
(1,004)
Total AAF (All theaters) Captured and Interned (Died in
Captivity)
41,057
(2,783)
Total AAF (All theaters) MIA (returned to duty)
11 ,176
(7,556)
Total AAF (All theaters) Casualties
Total AAF Aircraft Accident Deaths (7 December 1941 31 Dec 1946)
115,382
25,844
"This figure apparently includes all AAF prisoners recovered from POW camps in Germany. It
aThis
would, therefore, count a great many American aircrews
aircrews captured by the Germans in the
Mediterranean (belonging to the Ninth, Twelfth, and Fifteenth Air Forces) and thence transferred to Germany.