CasualtyBase Army hospital admissions · 1942–1945

All 1942–1945 files

Admission statistics

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Filters Cold Injury, Ground Type × Clear all
Admission cards87,443
Recorded as died48
With a place recorded99%

Counts are admission cards, not individual soldiers or totals. The Army kept battle casualties at 100% and sampled other admissions at 20–80%, and sampling differs by year — compare shares within a year, not raw counts across years.

Type of case

Disease: 912 cards (1.0%) Non-battle injury: 21,823 cards (25.0%) Battle casualty or injury: 63,422 cards (72.5%) Not recorded: 1,286 cards (1.5%) 87,443 cards

Outcome

Admissions by month

24,632 0 January 1942: 0 cards 1942 February 1942: 0 cards March 1942: 0 cards April 1942: 0 cards May 1942: 0 cards June 1942: 0 cards July 1942: 0 cards August 1942: 0 cards September 1942: 0 cards October 1942: 0 cards November 1942: 0 cards December 1942: 3 cards January 1943: 1 cards 1943 February 1943: 7 cards March 1943: 6 cards April 1943: 8 cards May 1943: 223 cards June 1943: 60 cards July 1943: 8 cards August 1943: 46 cards September 1943: 2 cards October 1943: 22 cards November 1943: 524 cards December 1943: 1,633 cards January 1944: 2,383 cards 1944 February 1944: 2,654 cards March 1944: 1,397 cards April 1944: 230 cards May 1944: 333 cards June 1944: 185 cards July 1944: 149 cards August 1944: 74 cards September 1944: 294 cards October 1944: 1,816 cards November 1944: 24,632 cards December 1944: 23,420 cards January 1945: 18,583 cards 1945 February 1945: 5,791 cards March 1945: 1,827 cards April 1945: 370 cards May 1945: 194 cards June 1945: 112 cards July 1945: 21 cards August 1945: 32 cards September 1945: 10 cards October 1945: 5 cards November 1945: 12 cards December 1945: 61 cards

315 cards have no admission month (some layouts do not record it).

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MonthCards
December 19423
January 19431
February 19437
March 19436
April 19438
May 1943223
June 194360
July 19438
August 194346
September 19432
October 194322
November 1943524
December 19431,633
January 19442,383
February 19442,654
March 19441,397
April 1944230
May 1944333
June 1944185
July 1944149
August 194474
September 1944294
October 19441,816
November 194424,632
December 194423,420
January 194518,583
February 19455,791
March 19451,827
April 1945370
May 1945194
June 1945112
July 194521
August 194532
September 194510
October 19455
November 194512
December 194561

Where admitted

Recorded on 99% of these cards · 228 distinct values

Primary diagnosis

Recorded on 100% of these cards · 211 distinct values

Cause of injury

Recorded on 100% of these cards · 1 distinct values

Arm or service

Recorded on 99% of these cards · 90 distinct values