title: Casualty rates among naval forces ashore.
abstract: Casualty rates for naval forces ashore across varying battle intensities are needed as input to medical and manpower planning models. Casualty data of medical and construction battalions participating in World War II amphibious assaults, Korea, and Vietnam were extracted from archival sources. Casualty rates among naval ashore forces fluctuated with battle intensity. The rate during intense combat was 15 per 1,000 per day among hospital corpsmen organic to infantry units, 7.5 for medical battalion personnel, and 2.1 among construction forces. Casualty rates dropped dramatically with decreasing battle intensity, especially among construction and medical battalions.
authors.affiliation: Medical Information Systems and Operations Research Department, Naval Health Research Center, San Diego, CA 92186-5122.
authors.forename: C G
authors.initials: CG
authors.lastname: Blood
authors.forename: M E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Anderson
authors.forename: E D
authors.initials: ED
authors.lastname: Gauker
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008889:Military Personnel / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D009326:Naval Medicine; D014857:Warfare; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000453:epidemiology*