Casualties of 17th Airborne Div

[Geoffrey Cooke]

What are the casualty figures for the 17th Airborne Division for January 1945?

[Richard Anderson]

What are the casualty figures for the 17th Airborne Division for January 1945?

Don't have it for all of January, but 3-16 January was 239 KIA, 1,042 WIA, and 1,199 MIA.

[Geoffrey Cooke]

What are the casualty figures for the 17th Airborne Division for January 1945?

Don't have it for all of January, but 3-16 January was 239 KIA, 1,042 WIA, and 1,199 MIA.

Thanks. I must say, that’s ALOT of MIA

[Richard Anderson]

What are the casualty figures for the 17th Airborne Division for January 1945?

Don't have it for all of January, but 3-16 January was 239 KIA, 1,042 WIA, and 1,199 MIA.

Thanks. I must say, that’s ALOT of MIA

Yeah, but most of them were probably RTD or reclassified as KIA or WIA. For the Ardennes Campaign, i.e. 16 December 1944-25 January 1945, the losses were recorded as 457 Battle Deaths, 376 KIA, 2,633 WIA, 305 Captured, and 35 MIA.

[Geoffrey Cooke]

What are the casualty figures for the 17th Airborne Division for January 1945?

Don't have it for all of January, but 3-16 January was 239 KIA, 1,042 WIA, and 1,199 MIA.

Thanks. I must say, that’s ALOT of MIA

Yeah, but most of them were probably RTD or reclassified as KIA or WIA. For the Ardennes Campaign, i.e. 16 December 1944-25 January 1945, the losses were recorded as 457 Battle Deaths, 376 KIA, 2,633 WIA, 305 Captured, and 35 MIA.

Is this from the Thompson study we were discussing?

[Richard Anderson]

What are the casualty figures for the 17th Airborne Division for January 1945?

Don't have it for all of January, but 3-16 January was 239 KIA, 1,042 WIA, and 1,199 MIA.

Thanks. I must say, that’s ALOT of MIA

Yeah, but most of them were probably RTD or reclassified as KIA or WIA. For the Ardennes Campaign, i.e. 16 December 1944-25 January 1945, the losses were recorded as 457 Battle Deaths, 376 KIA, 2,633 WIA, 305 Captured, and 35 MIA.

Is this from the Thompson study we were discussing?

Yes.

[Stoat Coat]

Very high losses considering it was only involved from January 3 onward and missed the December fighting. Maybe higher than even the losses of the 82d and 101st AB Divisions

[Stoat Coat]

Don't have it for all of January, but 3-16 January was 239 KIA, 1,042 WIA, and 1,199 MIA.

Thanks. I must say, that’s ALOT of MIA

Yeah, but most of them were probably RTD or reclassified as KIA or WIA. For the Ardennes Campaign, i.e. 16 December 1944-25 January 1945, the losses were recorded as 457 Battle Deaths, 376 KIA, 2,633 WIA, 305 Captured, and 35 MIA.

Is this from the Thompson study we were discussing?

Yes.

Did any division suffer 1,000+ battle deaths in the “Ardennes-Alsace Campaign”? It was common for pacific battles like Peleliu, Saipan, Okinawa and Iwo Jima

[Richard Anderson]

Did any division suffer 1,000+ battle deaths in the “Ardennes-Alsace Campaign”? It was common for pacific battles like Peleliu, Saipan, Okinawa and Iwo Jima

No, the highest was the 101st with 688 followed by the 106th with 685,