re: Gen. Douglas MacArthur "dug out dug"

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Mission Accomplishment takes priority to Troop Welfare

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If you look at the casualty rates of Marine & Army infantry divisions in the PTO (Pacific Theater of Operation) and compare them to the Army infantry divisions in the ETO (European Theater of Operation), you'll see that Europe was a whole lot more bloody than anything in the Pacific. And it's not really even close....

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Casualties
The ten divisions with the most battle casualties are presented below. Casualties are defined as killed in action, wounded in action, captured and interned, and missing in action.

Casualties Division Theater
25,977 3rd Infantry Division Mediterranean & European
23,277 9th Infantry Division Mediterranean & European
22,660 4th Infantry Division European
20,993 45th Infantry Division Mediterranean & European
20,659 1st Infantry Division Mediterranean & European
20,620 29th Infantry Division European
19,466 36th Infantry Division Mediterranean & European
19,200 90th Infantry Division European
18,446 30th Infantry Division European
17,087 80th Infantry Division European

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The five divisions with the most battle casualties in the Pacific Theater are provided below. Casualties are defined as killed in action, wounded in action, captured and interned, and missing in action.

Casualties Division Theater
9,212 7th Infantry Division Pacific
8,812 96th Infantry Division Pacific
7,461 77th Infantry Division Pacific
7,268 32nd Infantry Division Pacific
7,012 24th Infantry Division Pacific

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I cannot find a table showing the 6 numbered Marine division that fought in World War II individual casualty rates. I did find this link that shows between the 6 marine divisions a total of 19,733 were killed and another 67,207 were wounded in World War II. That averages out to about 14,490 killed, wounded and missing per Marine Div, which puts them a bit higher than their US Army counterparts in the PTO from a causality standpoint but far below the top ten US Army infantry divisions in the ETO.

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