The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-02
Dead and Missing h United States Army
 Placed at 56, 6,592
Approximately 10000 Re- main Wholly Unaccounted
 For-Only 29 Prisoners Believed to Be Still in Germany on January s
Hv As,octay,d Press


 forces in France, made public
 today by General March, chief
 of staff, show that approxi-
 mately 10000 men remain
 wholly unaccounted for nearly three months after the ending
 of hostilities.
 The deaths, missing and known pris-
 oners are tabulated up to January 10 for
 each of the 30 combatant divisions of General Pershing's army. The total is 56.592, of whom 17,43i are classified as missing or captured. An appended state
 ment shows that only % American mili- tary prisoners were believed to be still in Germany on January s, and that 4S00 prisoners had been checked up as re- turned and l1S died in captivity. Els. Some portion of the great body of miss ing men may be located as the return
 of the army thins out the American
 fierce in France. Indications are, how
 ever. that the majority of the 1000 final
 ly will be added to the roll of honor shown In the tables of those killed or died oi wounds, now recorded as 3s.15s men. 1851 MARINES TO that figure. also must be added 1851
 men of the marine brigade, figures for which, not carried in the tables. were
 obtained from official sources. This brings , the grand aggregate of deaths from bat tle up to 40,709 on returns estimated of-s tlclally to 95 per cent /complete As fiw- ures on missing and prisoners of the marines are lacking, the number of un- accounted for which finally will be add ed to the roll of the dead cannot bs accurately, accounted.
 The army tables, however, give a total or l4,bis men missing in action and 27s5 k' own prisoners making up the 17<34
 missing or captured. The appended state ment shows that the army rolls record 49ls American military prisoners account
 ed for. Admittedly, there are many pos. sib.litles of error, but the statement says It Is anticipated that the indicated un-
 accounted for list of 12.5l6 will be brought | down to less than 10,o0o.''
 NO DATA ON WOUNDED | The tables do not furnish any data as | to the wounded or deaths other than
 those resulting directly from battle. A new estimate of the complete figures on l American casualties Is therefore not pos- sih'e. It is significant, however, that 1 up tc tonight. the war department has
 published the names of 43.SS2 men killed
 or died of wounds as against g, las shown 1 in the 95 per cent tables. The differ 1 ence is made up by additional returns since the tables were closed January 10. On November ? General Pershing es- tma:ed that his total killed and died of
 wounds would be 4o,455 Presumably pub lication of the lists of these known deaths oI,, nearly completed, having exceeded the estimate by more than 5000, due in part to additional deaths from wounds and to the listing as dead of men formerly reported missing. eu The names of 14s.41S wounded had been published up to tonight. compared with a November estimated total of 18s, 1855. Of those, missing in action 11,676 have been published against the estimated 4.260 total and compared with the 17,<34
 missing and prisoners shown in today's tables. tl
 INFANTRY BORE BRUNT Examination of the losses by regi- | ments shows clearly that the brunt
 of the fighting fell on the infantry. In every division which got into action losses were many times greater even proportionately to the strength of the
 units, than those of the artillery, ma chine gun battalions trench mortar batteries or engineers.
 A score of regiments, lost fully one third of the full strength of 3700 men in killed. died of wounds, missing and prisoners When figures on the wounded are available. officers believe the total casualties in several regi-
 ments may equal the full strength The artillery regiments escaped with relatively light losses In some cases machine gun battalions suffered se- a1Ny nd hnr hnr He ffx divisional engineer regiments that paid heavy toll for their place in thu front lines.
 The first regular division, built up
 out of the original force General Per shing took to France, suffered the | heaviest casualties of 12.706 recorded in today's tables. This division was the first to reach the line and was almost constantly in action until the end A striking feature of the tabfa | Is losses of the Twenty-eighth (Penu- sylvania national guard) division. which stands second in the list, with l a total of 3S90 casualties.
 1 RECORDS SHOW WORK | The records of the Twenty-slxth 1 (New England national guard) the lTwenty-seventh and Seventy-seveuth,
 both New York divisions; the Thirty second the famous Forty second 1 (Rainbow) and the Seventy ninth
 tPennsylvania. Maryla and District l of Columbia troops), with more than | 200o casualties each, tell of the work they did. These and other national guard or national Army divisions that were given an opportunity at the front won their ground despite losses l in men.
 Analysis of the strenuous service record of the Twenty eighth division army officers said would explain it's high casualties The Twenty-eighth was ordered overseas about June l, ! 1918. spent the fortnight of June 14 1 to July 1 in training area, and then moved up to the front line, taking it's position northeast of Parnay. on July i16, From that date until the armis- 1 tice was signed with the exception | of brief rest period. the Pennsylvan- ians were in the forefront of the fight l ing. | The colorless files of the general staff give the following brief details l of the record of the Pennsylvania lguardsmen: 'a
 July 2s. crossed the Orca; July 30.s 1 joined Somme drive, July Si. in ad-
 vance on the Vesle. with Forty second 1 on their left; August 6-9. moved to Vesle front. relieving irty-second August S-30. in advance to vesle; Sep- 1 tember |, advance clements crossed vesle; September 5. crossed vesle in | force. Setttember . 1T in action. Cc-