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American War and Military Operations Casualties: Lists and Statistics Congressional Research Service; Louisiana State University's statistical summary of major American wars; Washington Post database of all U.S. service-member casualties Archived 2006-10-12 at the Wayback Machine; CNN list of U.S. Casualties in Iraq since 2003.
The 14th Quartermaster Detachment, is a United States Army Reserve water purification unit stationed in Greensburg, Pennsylvania.During Operation Desert Storm, the detachment lost 13 soldiers and 43 would be wounded in an Iraqi Al Hussein ballistic missile attack on 25 February 1991 at Dhahran, Saudi Arabia; the 14th, which had been in Saudi Arabia only six days, suffered the greatest number ...
Mortuary Affairs is a service within the United States Army Quartermaster Corps tasked with the recovery, identification, transportation, and preparation for burial of deceased American and American-allied military personnel. The human remains of enemy or non-friendly persons are collected and returned to their respective governments or ...
This article lists battles and campaigns in which the number of U.S. soldiers killed was higher than 1,000. The battles and campaigns that reached that number of deaths in the field are so far limited to the American Civil War, World War I, World War II, Korean War, one campaign during the Vietnam War (the Tet Offensive from January 30 to September 23, 1968) and one campaign during the Iraq ...
February 8, 2020 – Two U.S. Special Operations Soldiers were killed and six service members wounded from an insider "Green on Blue" attack in Nangarhar. [32] August 26, 2021 – Thirteen U.S. service members from the US Marine Corps, US Navy and US Army were killed in a suicide bombing attack [33] during evacuations at the Kabul airport.
A United States Army (US Army) Sikorksy UH-60L crashed during a heavy rain storm in south-eastern Afghanistan, five killed. 11 March A USN Grumman EA-6B Prowler crashed during a scheduled low-level flight; three fatalities. [133] 11 March An Israeli Air Force (IDF/AF) Bell AH-1S helicopter crashed during a training flight in southern Israel ...
Camera footage from a U.S. A-10, as it begins an attack on a British vehicle squadron, March 2003. This is a list of friendly fire incidents by the U.S. Military on allied British personnel and civilians. Korean War 23 September 1950: During the "Battle of Hill 282", three United States Air Force P-51 Mustang aircraft attacked a position held by the British Army's 1st Battalion, Argyll and ...
Since the start of U.S. military operations in Afghanistan through mid-2019, nearly 2,400 American servicemembers have died. [164] Additionally, 20,719 U.S. service members have been wounded in hostile action, according to the Defense Department. [3] Of the United States deaths, 1,922 have died in hostile action.