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Sgt Sienkiewicz WIA | T/4 Hanley WIA | Sgt Brady WIA | PFC Cockrell WIA |
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Pvt Staszewski WIA |
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T/5 Stepanik WIA | ||||
Pfc Evernden WIA | ||||
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S/Sgt Coyne KIA | Sgt Wolf KIA | Pvt McNeill WIA |
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Cpl Garibaldi WIA |
Cpl Page WIA | Cpl Lazroe WIA | S/Sgt Adamo WIA | (Medical Det.) | |
Sgt Putrino WIA | Sgt Makowsky WIA | Pvt View WIA |
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Cpl Jakubik WIA | T/5 Tulli WIA | |||
Cpl Campbell WIA | Pvt D'Amico WIA | |||
T/5 Nurigat WIA | Pvt Espinoza WIA | |||
Pvt Lovrenic WIA | Cpl Ducharme WIA | |||
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Pvt Rondeau KIA | Sgt Fronczkowski WIA |
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Cpl Farr WIA |
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T/5 Evanina WIA | Pfc Beeler WIA | |||
Pfc Gimenez WIA | Pvt Wolf WIA | |||
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Capt Garton WIA | Sgt Ricciardo WIA | Lt Davis KIA | T/5 Tomaselloi WIA | T/4 Mraz WIA |
T/5 Moore WIA | Capt Wiggenhorn WIA | Sgt Godwin WIA |
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T/5 Furmanj WIA |
Cpt Bye WIA | Pvt Leonard KIA | Cpl Weaver WIA | Lt Blustein WIA | |
Sgt Putrino WIA |
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Cpl Jacubowski WIA | Pvt Creighton WIA | |||
T/5 Harrington WIA | Pvt Wilt WIA | |||
Pvt Bruner KIA | Sgt Yolton KIA | |||
Pvt Nearney WIA | T/5 Block WIA | |||
Pvt Costello WIA | Pfc Berka KIA | |||
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Pfc Brannan WIA | ||||
Pvt Zaorski WIA | ||||
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Sgt Ellis WIA | Lt Patterson MIA | Lt Owen WIA |
Sgt Hughes KIA |
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Sgt Meyers WIA | Sgt Smith MIA |
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Sgt Olivetti WIA | T/5 Kaesyk MIA | Pvt Greenberg |
Cpl Karpiak WIA | Pfc Evernden WIA | Pfc Waldron WIA | (MIA Medic) | |
Cpl Nolan WIA | Pvt Capito WIA | Pfc Drummond WIA | S/Sgt DiStasi WIA | |
T/5 Lee | T/5 Hooper WIA | Pfc Jones MIA | Pfc Meltz WIA | |
Pvt Bieniek KIA | Pfc Giezentaner WIA | Pfc Colley WIA | (Both medics) | |
Pvt Witt WIA | Pvt Walters WIA | Pfc Catalano WIA | Medic | |
Pvt Garpetti WIA | Lt McDermott WIA | Pvt Garofalo MIA | Cpt. Driskell | |
Cpl Campbell WIA | Sgt Chester WIA | Pvt Brown MIA | T/4 Frank WIA | |
Pvt. Cassidy WIA | Pfc Frye WIA | Pvt Duffus MIA |
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Cpl Cruz WIA | T/5 Mason WIA | Pvt Kosiw WIA | ||
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Pfc Feil WIA | T/4 Esper WIA | Sgt Hartzog WA | Pfc Cockrell WIA | T/4 Paner WIA |
Sgt Dougan WIA | Lt Joyce WIA | Pfc Daley WIA | Pvt Addison KIA | (Medic) |
Pfc Horting WIA | Cpl Wojcik WIA | Pvt Delladonna WIA | Sgt Di Giacamo KIA | Cpl Selby WIA |
Cpl McCord KIA | Pvt Miller WIA | Lt Coats WIA | T/5 Duval KIA | (Medic) |
Pfc Mehan WIA | T/5 Sagel WIA | T/5 Lopez WIA | Pvt Cline WIA | |
Sgt Pisane WIA | T/4 Myers WIA | Lt NcDermott WIA | Pvt DiSantis WIA | |
Cpl Campbell WIA | Sgt Allender WIA | T/4 Tomash WIA | Pv t Giel WIA | |
Pvt Hart KIA | T/4 DiCesare WIA | S/Sgt Bonacci WIA | Pvt Arlet WIA | |
Pvt Gibson WIA | Pfc Crumlic WIA | Sgt Hooper WIA | Pvt Robillard WIA | |
T/5 Lake WIA | Lt Herrman WIA | Sgt Visnich WIA | T/5 Tomaselli WIA | |
Pvt Gallagher WIA | Sgt Crivello WIA | Pfc Giezentaner WIA | Lt Messer KIA | |
Pvt Neil WIA | Sgt Evans WIA | Cpl Hohensee WIA |
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Pvt White WIA | Sgt Palumbo WIA | |||
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T/4 Wells WIA | ||||
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Lt Mulholland KIA | ||||
Lt Coats WIA | ||||
T/Sgt Giust WIA | ||||
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Sgt Hayhurst WIA | ||||
Sgt Chicano WIA | ||||
Lt Patton WIA | ||||
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Pfc Capito WIA | ||||
T/5 Arndt WIA | ||||
Lt Moore KIA | ||||
Sgt Todd KIA | ||||
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Pfc Spencer WIA | Pfc Rhodeside WIA | Lt Parker WIA | T/5 Taylor WIA | |
Cpl Nerney WIA | Pfc O'Connor WIA | Cpl McNeill KIA | Pfc Husak WIA | |
Lt Soloman WIA | T/5 Matney WIA | Cpl Vallee WIA | T/5 Heisman KIA | |
Lt Keesling KIA | Pfc Henry WIA | Sgt Durham WIA | Pvt Schaffer KIA | |
Sgt Doctors KIA | T/5 Jett WIA | Capt McDougal WIA | Pvt Long WIA | |
Cpl Osko KIA | Sgt Shimek KIA |
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S/Sgt Lioi WIA | Lt Kelleher WIA | |||
Sgt Allender WIA | Pvt Haynes WIA | |||
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These 264 Battle Casualities include the 7 Recon guys at Bullingen. This makes a total of 257 Purple Hearts awarded to 42 Killed in Action and 215 Wounded in Action. A few guys were wounded three times and more were wounded twice. Their names are listed and counted for each incident. The battle casuality rate for the 644th Tank Destroyer Battalion was 39 percent of the battallion's T/O strength. This compares with a 50 percent average rate for all armored units in the European Theater of Operations. |
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"A" Company: | 65 including 14 KIA and 51 WIA, or a rate of 51 percent. | |||
"B" Company: | 55 including 6 KIA and 49 WIA, or a rate of 43 percent. | |||
"C" Company: | 90 including 14 KIA and 76 WIA, or a rate of 71 percent. | |||
Recon Co: | 43 including 8 KIA and 28 WIA, or a rate of 34 percent. | |||
Hdqtrs Co: | 5 all wounded, none killed or a rate of 3 percent. | |||
Med. Detachment | 6 all wounded, none killed or a rate of 31. | |||
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Normandy....13 | Dinard-St Malo 8 | Brest............22 | Luxembourg.....9 | Hurtgen.......32 |
Ardennes......46 | Rhineland........61 | Remagen......23 | Ruhr-Elbe......52 | |
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1. Official Monthly Casualty Summaaries prepared by Capt Nathaniel Berg, Bn Medical Officer. NOTE: The many hospitalized for non-battle injuries and illnesses have been excluded from these Battle Casuality figures. |
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2. Average casualty rate (50%) is found in Dep't of the Army, "US Army in World War II. European Theater of Operations, Volume "The Last Offensive", written by Charles B. McDonald, Office of the Chief of Military History, US Army. This 50% rate is much lower than Infantry units, equal to Army Air Corps units, and higher than Artillery units, and all other branches and arms. |