History of the Marine Corps · BloodlineMarine Corps Deaths by War
45,788 Marines, traced from home to the place they fell.from home to where they fell. Search a name, a hometown or a state, or pick one on the map.
Home of record
Place of death
How to read the markers
Solid circle: the record names the place.
Outlined circle: the record doesn’t name the place, so it was worked out from the unit and the date of death.
Faint circle: the record names only the country. This applies to Lebanon, the Gulf War and the smaller operations. Korean War records also give only the country, so most of them are placed on a battle by date.
Most of their records don’t say where they died. Some list only a ship, a squadron or a base. Prisoner of war records give a date but no camp. Some list only a name and a hometown. Others died away from the fighting, at a base or in a hospital, and the map shows only where Marines fell.
Choose a row to list the names.
Engagements
Records
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These records come from casualty cards, muster rolls and archived lists, some typed eighty years ago and read by machine. Where the source gave a unit and a date but no place, the battle is worked out from the two. Errors are in the originals as often as in our handling of them, and corrections from the people who knew these Marines are the best check we have.
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