Excerpt from the Foreword: When military planners determine the sinews for armed conflict, many diverse factors must be addressed. Statistics and lessons learned from history are studied and analyzed with profound resolve to determine the nature and relationship of the parts to the whole. The medical planners provide essential data as to numbers and rates of admissions, effectiveness, probable locations of wounds, and projected dispositions. These statistics are correlated with type of operations, lethality of weapons, and probable duration of conflict in determining the force structure and required medical services and support. For the medical planner, this volume of World War II Army Medical Statistics provides data relating to the largest concentration of combat troops ever mobilized by our Nation. Statistics portray a deployed force in eight theaters with diverse terrestrial climats, deserts, mountains, jungles, and frigid icelands. Scope of data includes battle casualties from trauma, classified by causative agents and anatomical location; it also includes nonbattle disease and nonbattle injury admissions by diagnosis and class, non effectiveness, and types of dispositions and deaths. This single source documentary is an invaluable reference for medical planners, students, researchers, and historians of the U.S. Army Medical Department.

Includes index.