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Casualties: U.S. Navy and Marine Corps Personnel Killed and Wounded in Wars, Conflicts, Terrorist Acts, and Other Hostile Incidents
| NAVY | MARINE CORPS | |||
| ACTION | KIA | WIA | KIA | WIA |
| Revolutionary War, | ||||
| 19 Apr. 1775 - 11 Apr. 1783 | 342 | 114 | 49 | 70 |
| Naval War with France, | ||||
| July 1798 - 3 Feb. 1801 | 14 | 31 | 6 | 11 |
| Barbary Wars, Mediterranean | ||||
| Sea, 10 Jun. 1801 - | ||||
| 4 Jun. 1805 | 31 | 54 | 4 | 10 |
| USS Chesapeake attacked by | ||||
| HMS Leopard, off Cape Henry, | ||||
| Virginia, 22 Jun. 1807 | 3 | 18 | 0 | 0 |
| War of 1812, | ||||
| 18 Jun. 1812 - 17 Feb. 1815 | 265 | 439 | 45 | 66 |
| Marines escorting a convoy of | ||||
| supply wagons ambushed by an | ||||
| irregular force of Native | ||||
| Americans and African Americans | ||||
| in Twelve Mile Swamp near | ||||
| St.John's, East Florida, | ||||
| 11 Sep. 1812 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 7 |
| USS Nonsuch captured pirate | ||||
| ship Caledonia off Savannah, | ||||
| Georgia, 9 Apr. 1813 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| USS Essex crewmembers battle | ||||
| with Taipis Tribe, Nuka Hiva, | ||||
| Marquesas Islands, 29 Nov. 1813 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| USS Essex crewmembers battle | ||||
| with Taii Tribe, Nuka Hiva, | ||||
| Marquesas Islands, 27 May 1814 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Ambush of Navy personnel on | ||||
| Apalachicola River, Spanish | ||||
| Florida, during reconnaissance of | ||||
| fort and settlement occupied by | ||||
| free African Americans and | ||||
| escaped slaves, 17 Jul. 1816 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| USS Macedonian shore party | ||||
| fired on by mob during Peruvian | ||||
| War of Independence, Callao, | ||||
| Peru, 6 Nov. 1820 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| Suppression of Piracy in | ||||
| West Indies, 1822-1825 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| USS Fox fired on from Spanish | ||||
| castle El Moro, St. Johns, | ||||
| Puerto Rico, 5 Mar. 1823 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| USS Porpoise skirmish with | ||||
| Greek pirates, near Andros | ||||
| Island, Aegean Sea, | ||||
| 23 Oct. 1827 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| USS Potomac punitive Landing at | ||||
| Qualah Battoo, Sumatra, | ||||
| 6 Feb. 1832 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 4 |
| Seminole War, Florida, | ||||
| 1835 - 1842 | 8 | 12 | 3 | 5 |
| USS Natchez Sailor's dispute | ||||
| with fisherman led to bayonet | ||||
| attack by Mexican guard, | ||||
| Vera Cruz, 25 Oct. 1836 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Wilkes Expedition, skirmish | ||||
| with natives at Malolo, Fiji, | ||||
| 24 Jul. 1840 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Mexican War, | ||||
| 24 Apr. 1846 - 30 May 1848 | 13 | 3 | 11 | 47 |
| USS Plymouth landing party | ||||
| skirmish with Chinese Imperial | ||||
| troops during Taiping Rebellion, | ||||
| 5 Jun. 1855 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| USS Water Witch engagement with | ||||
| a Paraguayan fort at Itapiru, | ||||
| 1 Feb. 1855 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| USS Powhatan engagement | ||||
| with Chinese pirates | ||||
| near Hong Kong, China, | ||||
| 4 Aug 1855 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 0 |
| USS John Adams punitive | ||||
| expedition to Viti Levu, Fiji, | ||||
| 28-31 Oct. 1855 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Operations against Native | ||||
| Americans, Puget Sound, | ||||
| Washington Territory, 1855 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| USS Portsmouth, USS San Jacinto | ||||
| and USS Levant reduction of the | ||||
| Barrier Forts, Canton, China, | ||||
| 16-22 Nov. 1856 | 7 | 15 | 0 | 6 |
| USS Massachusetts Coxswain Gustave | ||||
| Englebrecht killed in skirmish with | ||||
| Native American at Port Gamble, | ||||
| Washington, 22 Nov. 1856 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Confrontation with mob during | ||||
| election violence outside | ||||
| City Hall, Washington DC, | ||||
| 1 June 1857 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| USS Vandalia, punitive | ||||
| expedition to Waya, Fiji, | ||||
| 9 Oct. 1858 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 |
| Chartered river steamer | ||||
| Toey-Wan supported English | ||||
| and French attack on Chinese | ||||
| forts at mouth of Peiho River, | ||||
| China, 25 Jun. 1859 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Marine assault on building | ||||
| occupied by abolitionist John | ||||
| Brown and followers, Harper's | ||||
| Ferry, Virginia, 18 Oct. 1859 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| USS Saratoga and chartered | ||||
| steamers Indianola and Wave, | ||||
| gun battle and boarding of | ||||
| Mexican armed steamer General | ||||
| Miramon, near Vera Cruz, | ||||
| Mexico, 6 Mar. 1860 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Civil War (Union forces only), | ||||
| 15 Apr. 1861 - 26 May 1865 | 2,112 | 1,710 | 148 | 131 |
| USS Wyoming battle with naval | ||||
| forces of Japanese feudal | ||||
| warlord off Shimonoseki, | ||||
| 13 Jul. 1863 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 0 |
| USS Hartford and USS Wyoming, | ||||
| landing party skirmish with | ||||
| natives near Taka, Formosa, | ||||
| 13 Jun. 1867 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| USS Oneida Sailor wounded | ||||
| during attack on foreign | ||||
| residents by Japanese troops | ||||
| during Meiji Restoration, | ||||
| Hiogo, Japan, 4 Feb. 1868 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| USS Mohican battle with | ||||
| Mexican pirate steamer | ||||
| Forward in Teacapan River, | ||||
| Mexico, 17 Jun. 1870 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 1 |
| USS Monocacy, USS Palos | ||||
| and steam launches from USS | ||||
| Colorado and USS Alaska, | ||||
| attack on Korean fort along | ||||
| Salee River, June 1871 | 2 | 12 | 1 | 1 |
| Marines from Brooklyn Navy | ||||
| Yard guarding revenue officers | ||||
| engaged in destroying | ||||
| illegal distilleries in | ||||
| Brooklyn, New York, | ||||
| 14 July and 17 Oct. 1871 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| USS Baltimore Sailors | ||||
| fight with Chilean Sailors; | ||||
| mobs subsequently attacked | ||||
| US Sailors, Valparaiso, | ||||
| 16 Oct. 1891 | 2 | 18 | 0 | 0 |
| USS Maine sunk in Havana Harbor, | ||||
| Cuba, 15 Feb. 1898. (Sometimes | ||||
| attributed to hostile action.) | 266 | 54 | 0 | 0 |
| Spanish American War, | ||||
| 15 Feb. 1898 - 10 Dec. 1898 | 10 | 47 | 6 | 21 |
| Philippine Islands Insurrection, | ||||
| 4 Feb. 1899 - 25 Apr. 1901 | 9 | 0 | 7 | 19 |
| USS Philadelphia punitive | ||||
| expedition to Apia, Samoa, | ||||
| 1 Apr. 1899 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 |
| Boxer Rebellion, China, | ||||
| 20 Jun. 1900 - 12 May 1901 | 4 | 26 | 9 | 17 |
| Seaman Johnson shot by insurgents | ||||
| while in a small boat from USS | ||||
| Yankee at Santo Domingo, Dominican | ||||
| Republic, 1 Feb. 1904 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apprentice 2d class Charles Doctor | ||||
| from USS Columbia landing party | ||||
| wounded by insurgents at Santo | ||||
| Domingo, Dominican Republic, | ||||
| 11 Feb. 1904 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| While taking supplies to | ||||
| US Army Camp Tabla, USS | ||||
| Pambanga shore party | ||||
| attacked by Moro rebels, | ||||
| Basilian Island, Philippines, | ||||
| 24 Sep. 1911 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Pacification of Nicaragua, | ||||
| 4 Aug. 1912 - 31 Jan. 1913 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 16 |
| Occupation of Vera Cruz, | ||||
| Mexico, 21-23 Nov. 1914 | 17 | 57 | 5 | 13 |
| Pacification of Haiti, | ||||
| 25 Jul. 1915 - 6 Apr. 1917 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 29 |
| Small boat from USS Annapolis | ||||
| fired on by Mexican soldiers | ||||
| at Mazatlan, 18 Jun. 1916 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Pacification of Dominican | ||||
| Republic, 1916 - 1924 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 50 |
| SS Aztec sunk by German | ||||
| submarine off Island of | ||||
| Ushant, France, resulting | ||||
| in death of Boatswain's Mate | ||||
| 1/c John I. Eopolucci, | ||||
| 1 Apr. 1917 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| World War I, 6 Apr. 1917 - | ||||
| 11 Nov. 1918 | 431 | 819 | 2,461 | 9,520 |
| USS Monocacy fired on by | ||||
| Chinese bandits, taking 80 | ||||
| bullet hits, north of Chenglin, | ||||
| Yangtze River, China. Chief | ||||
| Yeoman H. L. O'Brien killed | ||||
| and Seaman W. W. Donnelly | ||||
| wounded during firefight. | ||||
| 17 Jan. 1918 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| USS Olympia shore party operated | ||||
| with British, French, Serbian | ||||
| and White Russian troops in | ||||
| skirmishes with Bolshevik forces | ||||
| along the Dvina River near | ||||
| Archangel during the Allied | ||||
| intervention in northern Russia, | ||||
| 15 Aug. - 6 Sep. 1918 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Armed guard detachment from | ||||
| USS Monocacy defended oil | ||||
| barge from bandit attack, | ||||
| north of Ichang, Yangtze | ||||
| River, China, 17 May 1921 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| USS Stewart (DD-224) fired on | ||||
| by Chinese troops near Wuchang, | ||||
| Yangtze River, China, | ||||
| 5 Sep. 1926 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| USS Pigeon (AM-47) fired on | ||||
| Chinese below Hanyang, | ||||
| China, 19 Sep 1926 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Nicaragua Pacification, | ||||
| 1927 - 1933 | 1 | 2 | 47 | 66 |
| USS Noa landing force | ||||
| fired on by Chinese | ||||
| warlord's troops, Nanking, | ||||
| China, 24 Mar. 1927 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| USS Penquin (AM-33) fired on | ||||
| by Chinese below Kiangyin | ||||
| forts, China 25 Apr 1927 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| Armed guard detachment on | ||||
| SS Chi Ping fired on by | ||||
| bandits, north of Wanhsien, | ||||
| Yangtze River, China, | ||||
| 14 Mar. 1930 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| USS Guam came under fire | ||||
| from bandits while | ||||
| attempting to rescue | ||||
| missionaries near Yochow, | ||||
| Yangtze River, China, | ||||
| 4 Jul. 1930 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| USS Palos fired on by | ||||
| bandits at Changsha, | ||||
| Yangtze River, China, | ||||
| 31 Jul. 1930 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Marine 2d Brigade guarding | ||||
| International Settlement, | ||||
| during fighting between | ||||
| Japanese and Chinese forces, | ||||
| Shanghai, China, | ||||
| Aug.-Oct. 1937 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| USS Augusta struck by | ||||
| Nationalist Chinese anti- | ||||
| aircraft shell, Shanghai, | ||||
| China, 20 Aug. 1937 | 1 | 18 | 0 | 0 |
| USS Augusta hit by shrapnel | ||||
| during fighting in Shanghai, | ||||
| China, 14 Oct. 1937 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| USS Panay sunk by Japanese | ||||
| air attack, near Nanking, | ||||
| Yangtze River, China, | ||||
| 12 Dec. 1937 | 2 | 43 | 0 | 0 |
| USS Kearny damaged by German | ||||
| submarine, Atlantic Ocean, | ||||
| 17 Oct. 1941 | 11 | 22 | 0 | 0 |
| USS Salinas damaged by German | ||||
| submarine, Atlantic Ocean, | ||||
| 30 Oct. 1941 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| USS Reuben James sunk by | ||||
| German submarine, Atlantic | ||||
| Ocean, 31 Oct. 1941 | 115 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| World War II, 7 Dec. 1941 - | ||||
| 31 Dec. 1946 |
36,950 | 37,778 | 19,733 | 67,207 |
| 1st Marines reconnaissance | ||||
| patrol fired on by 40-50 | ||||
| Chinese communist guerillas | ||||
| northwest of Tientsin, China, | ||||
| 6 Oct. 1945 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 7th Marines jeep patrol fired | ||||
| on by Chinese communist snipers | ||||
| near Tangshan, China | ||||
| 19 Oct 1945 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Ambush of 5th Marines jeep patrol | ||||
| by Chinese communist snipers | ||||
| outside of Peiping, China | ||||
| 26 Oct 1945 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Two marines hunting near 7th | ||||
| Marines railroad outpost shot by | ||||
| two Chinese west of Anshan, China, | ||||
| 4 Dec 1945 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| One marine attacked while on | ||||
| liberty in Tientsin, China, | ||||
| 9 Dec 1945 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Two 7th Marines supply trucks | ||||
| ambushed by Chinese communist | ||||
| guerillas near Tangshan, China, | ||||
| 15 Jan 1946 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Marine hunting party attacked by | ||||
| irregular forces in the vicinity | ||||
| of Lutai, China, 7 Apr 1946 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 5th Marines bridge guards attacked | ||||
| by Chinese communists firing | ||||
| mortars, near Tangku, China, | ||||
| 5 May 1946 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 7th Marines sentry attacked by | ||||
| guerillas in Lutai, China, | ||||
| 7 May 1946 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1st Marines reconnaissance patrol | ||||
| ambushed by 50-75 armed Chinese | ||||
| in village 10 miles south of | ||||
| Tientsin, China, 21 May 1946 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Marine sentry attacked in Tangku, | ||||
| China, 2 Jul 1946 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Supply convoy, protected by 11th | ||||
| Marines detachment, ambushed by | ||||
| Chinese communist forces at Anping, | ||||
| China, 29 July 1946 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 11 |
| Chinese communist raid on 1st | ||||
| Marine Division ammunition supply | ||||
| point at Hsin Ho, northwest of | ||||
| Tangku, China 3 Oct 1946 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Two Chinese communist companies | ||||
| about 350 men, attack 1st Marine | ||||
| Division ammunition supply point | ||||
| at Hsin Ho, northwest of Tangku, | ||||
| China, 4-5 Apr 1947 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 17 |
| Marine hunting party ambushed | ||||
| by Chinese communists outside | ||||
| of Tientsin, China, | ||||
| 25 Dec. 1947 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| PB4Y2 from VP-26, Det A, | ||||
| shot down by Soviet | ||||
| aircraft, over Baltic Sea | ||||
| off coast of Latvia, | ||||
| 8 Apr. 1950 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Korean War, 25 Jun. 1950 - | ||||
| 31 Jan. 1955 | 503 | 1,576 | 4,267 | 23,744 |
| P2V-3W from VP-6 shot down | ||||
| by Soviet aircraft, over Sea | ||||
| of Japan off Vladivostok, | ||||
| Siberia, 6 Nov. 1951 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| PBM-5S2 from VP-731 attacked by | ||||
| Chinese fighters over the | ||||
| Yellow Sea, 31 Jul. 1952 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| P2V-5 from VP-22 shot down by | ||||
| anti-aircraft fire near Swatow, | ||||
| China, 18 Jan. 1953 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| P2V from VP-19 shot down | ||||
| by Soviet aircraft, over Sea | ||||
| of Japan near Siberian coast, | ||||
| 4 Sep. 1954 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| P2V from VP-9 shot down | ||||
| by Soviet aircraft, St. Lawrence | ||||
| Island in the Bering Sea, | ||||
| 22 Jun. 1955 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| P4M-1Q from VQ-1 shot down | ||||
| by hostile aircraft near | ||||
| Wenchow, China, 22 Aug. 1956 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| P4M-1Q from VQ-1 attacked by | ||||
| North Korean fighters near the | ||||
| Korean Demilitarized Zone, | ||||
| over Sea of Japan, 16 Jun. 1959 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Vietnam War, 4 Aug. 1964 - | ||||
| 27 Jan. 1973 | 1,631 | 4,178 | 13,095 | 51,392 |
| Intervention in the | ||||
| Dominican Republic, | ||||
| 28 Apr. 1965 - 21 Sep. 1966 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 25 |
| USS Liberty, attacked by | ||||
| Israeli forces in the | ||||
| Eastern Mediterranean, | ||||
| 8 Jun. 1967 | 31 | 168 | 2 | 1 |
| LCDR Ernest A. Munro killed and | ||||
| RMCS Harry L. Greene wounded by | ||||
| communist terrorists, Guatemala, | ||||
| 16 Jan 1968 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| USS Pueblo, captured by | ||||
| North Korean forces in the | ||||
| Sea of Japan, 23 Jan. 1968 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 1 |
| [All crew members, 79 Navy and 2 | ||||
| Marines, subsequently awarded the | ||||
| purple heart for the period of | ||||
| their captivity] | ||||
| A-1H from VA-25 on a ferry flight | ||||
| from the Philippines to an aircraft | ||||
| carrier in the Tonkin Gulf shot | ||||
| down by MIG interceptor after | ||||
| accidently violating airspace of | ||||
| Hainan Island, China | ||||
| 14 Feb. 1968 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| P3B from VP-26 on a coastal | ||||
| surveillance photo-reconnaissance | ||||
| mission, shot down, possibly by | ||||
| a Cambodian naval vessel, crashing | ||||
| in the Gulf of Thailand, | ||||
| 1 Apr. 1968 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sailors from USS Independence and | ||||
| accompanying destroyers injured by | ||||
| students during anti-American | ||||
| riots in Istanbul, Turkey, | ||||
| 16-23 Jul. 1968 | 0 | 19 | 0 | 0 |
| Sailors from USS Columbus and | ||||
| accompanying destroyers injured by | ||||
| students during anti-American | ||||
| riots in Izmir, Turkey, | ||||
| 19-22 Dec. 1968 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 0 |
| EC-121M from VQ-1 shot down | ||||
| by North Korean aircraft over | ||||
| the Sea of Japan, 14 Apr. 1969 | 30 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Two UH-1Bs from HAL-3 Detachment | ||||
| 3 shot down in Svay Rieng | ||||
| Province, Cambodia, by Cambodian | ||||
| anti-aircraft fire, 28 Apr. 1969 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Seabee wounded and Marine | ||||
| Security Guards killed and | ||||
| wounded during Terrorist | ||||
| attack on US Embassy softball | ||||
| game, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, | ||||
| 26 Sep. 1971 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Marine Security Guard Sidney T. | ||||
| James wounded during an attack | ||||
| by a radical communist group, | ||||
| U.S. Embassy, Manila, | ||||
| Philippines, 1972 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| LCDR Franklin G. West wounded by | ||||
| North Korean forces, Panmunjun, | ||||
| Korea, 3 Mar 1974 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| CDR Robert M. Ballinger killed | ||||
| by dynamite explosion during | ||||
| investigation of tunnel built by | ||||
| North Koreans in the southern | ||||
| portion of the demilitarized | ||||
| zone, Korea, 20 Nov 1974 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Seabees killed by gunfire during | ||||
| terrorist ambush of jeep on | ||||
| northeast edge of US Naval Base | ||||
| at Subic Bay, Philippines, | ||||
| 3 Feb. 1975 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Two Marines from Marine Security | ||||
| Detachment, Saigon, killed during | ||||
| artillery attack while providing | ||||
| security for Defense Attaché | ||||
| Office, at Tan Son Nhut Airport, | ||||
| Saigon, Republic of Vietnam, | ||||
| 29 April 1975 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| "Mayaguez Incident," battle with | ||||
| Khmer Rouge forces, Koh Tang | ||||
| Island, Cambodia, 14 May 1975 | 2 | 3 | 14 | 41 |
| Sailor wounded during attack by | ||||
| unidentified gunman against U.S. | ||||
| Air Force Bus, 14 miles north of | ||||
| Clark Air Bus, Philippines, | ||||
| 11 Dec. 1976 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| LT Robert E. Nelson serving with | ||||
| UN observers in the Lebanese | ||||
| village of Maroun Al Ras wounded | ||||
| during attack by Israeli Defense | ||||
| Forces, night of 14-15 Mar 1978 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| U.S. Embassy Marine security | ||||
| guard wounded, Kabul, | ||||
| Afghanistan, 7 Aug 1978 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| U.S. Embassy Marine security | ||||
| guard wounded, Beirut, Lebanon, | ||||
| 6 Oct 1978 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| SGT Garry Downey and SGT Kraus | ||||
| wounded by Iranian guerillas during | ||||
| attacks on U.S. Embassy, Tehran, | ||||
| Iran, 11 and 14 Feb. 1979 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Marine security guards injured | ||||
| when leftist protesters attempted | ||||
| to storm U.S. Embassy, San Salvador, | ||||
| El Salvador, 30 Oct. 1979 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Marine Security Guard CPL | ||||
| Steven Crowley killed by | ||||
| sniper fire during attack by | ||||
| mob on US Embassy, Islamabad, | ||||
| Pakistan, 21 Nov. 1979 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Puerto Rican nationalists armed | ||||
| with automatic weapons ambushed | ||||
| a Navy bus driving to Sabana Seca | ||||
| Naval Communication Center near | ||||
| San Juan, 3 Dec 1979 | 2 | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| BMCM Sam Novello killed by | ||||
| Turkish leftists at his home in | ||||
| Istanbul, Turkey, 16 April 1980 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Marines wounded in terrorist | ||||
| attack, Costa Rica, 17 Mar 1981 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Crewmen from USS Pensacola | ||||
| (LSD-38) attacked by terrorists | ||||
| in San Juan, Puerto Rico, | ||||
| 16 May 1982. | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| U.S. Embassy Marine security | ||||
| guard wounded, Beirut | ||||
| Lebanon, 7 Jun 1982 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Lebanon Peacekeeping, | ||||
| 25 Aug. 1982 - 26 Feb. 1984 | 19 | 8 | 234 | 151 |
| Terrorist bombing of US | ||||
| Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon. | ||||
| Casualties included IS1 Daniel | ||||
| J. Pellegrino and eight Marine | ||||
| Security Guards, 18 Apr. 1983 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| Lieutenant Commander Albert A. | ||||
| Schaufelberger killed by | ||||
| terrorists, San Salvador, | ||||
| El Salvador, 25 May 1983 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| CPL Guillermo Sanpedro killed | ||||
| in terrorist attack, Cyprus, | ||||
| 23 Oct. 1983 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Operation Urgent Fury, | ||||
| invasion of Grenada, West Indies | ||||
| 23 Oct.1983 - 21 Nov. 1983 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 15 |
| Capt. George Tsantes shot by | ||||
| terrorists near Athens, Greece | ||||
| 15 Nov. 1983 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Lt. Mark A. Lang killed and LT | ||||
| Robert O. Goodman wounded when | ||||
| A-6 Intruder from VA-85 shot down | ||||
| while attacking Syrian antiaircraft | ||||
| batteries at Hammana, east of | ||||
| Beirut, Lebanon, 4 Dec. 1983 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Commander, Carrier Air Wing Six | ||||
| (CVW-6) CDR Edward K. Andrews | ||||
| flying an A-7 Corsair II, shot | ||||
| down by aircraft fire, near | ||||
| Beirut, Lebanon, 4 Dec 1983 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| LCPL Rudolfo Hernandez killed | ||||
| in terrorist attack, Germany, | ||||
| 7 Feb. 1984 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| HN Carl P. Englund wounded, | ||||
| Beirut, Lebanon, 29 Feb 1984 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| PO1 Michael R. Wagner | ||||
| assigned to Defense Attaché | ||||
| Office, killed; CEC Harvey L. | ||||
| Whitaker and BU1 Stephen E. | ||||
| Haycock and four Marine security | ||||
| guards wounded in terrorist bombing | ||||
| of US Embassy Annex, East Beirut, | ||||
| Lebanon, 20 Sep. 1984 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| Seabee Steelworker 2nd Class | ||||
| Robert Dean Stethem of Underwater | ||||
| Construction Team ONE was killed | ||||
| by terrorists in Athens, Greece, | ||||
| on TWA Flight 847, | ||||
| 14 Jun. 1985 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Off-duty Marines assigned to | ||||
| Marine Security Guard Detachment, | ||||
| San Salvador, El Salvador, | ||||
| killed by terrorists armed with | ||||
| automatic weapons at a cafe in | ||||
| the Zona Rosa district of San | ||||
| Salvador, 19 June 1985 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| USS Stark struck by Iraqi | ||||
| missiles, Persian Gulf, | ||||
| 17 May 1987 | 37 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| Terrorist grenade attack on | ||||
| USO club in Barcelona, Spain, | ||||
| 27 Dec. 1987 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| Col. Rich Higgins, killed by | ||||
| pro-Iranian terrorists. | ||||
| Captured on 17 Feb. 1988 in | ||||
| Lebanon and declared dead on | ||||
| 6 Jul. 1990. | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| USS Samuel B. Roberts struck | ||||
| Iranian mine, Persian Gulf, | ||||
| 14 Apr. 1988 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| Japanese Red Army terrorist | ||||
| bombing of USO club in Naples, | ||||
| Italy, 14 Apr. 1988 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Loss of AH-1T helicopter during | ||||
| operations against Iranian naval | ||||
| forces, possibly to hostile | ||||
| action, Persian Gulf, | ||||
| 18 Apr. 1988 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Capt. William E. Nordeen, | ||||
| Defense and Naval Attaché, | ||||
| killed by terrorist car bomb | ||||
| in Kifissia, the suburb of | ||||
| Athens, Greece, | ||||
| 28 Jun. 1988 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Lt. Robert Paz, USMC shot and | ||||
| witnesses, Navy LT and his wife, | ||||
| beaten by Panamanian forces at | ||||
| a road block in Panama City, | ||||
| 16 Dec. 1989 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Operation Just Cause, Panama, | ||||
| 20 - 24 Dec. 1989 | 4 | 9 | 1 | 3 |
| Persian Gulf War, | ||||
| 2 Aug. 1990 - 3 Mar. 1991 | 6 | 12 | 24 | 92 |
| Operation Restore Hope, | ||||
| Somalia, 9 Dec. 1992 - | ||||
| 4 May 1994 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 15 |
| Bombing of Federal Building, | ||||
| Oklahoma City, 19 Apr. 1995 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Khobar Towers in Dhahran, | ||||
| Saudi Arabia bombed by | ||||
| terrorists, 25 Jun. 1996 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Terrorist bombing of US Embassy | ||||
| in Nairobi, Kenya, 7 August 199 | 8 | |||
| Marine security guard Sgt. Jesse | ||||
| Aliganga killed, one Marine | ||||
| guarded wounded | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| USS Cole (DDG 67) hit on port | ||||
| side near forward stack by | ||||
| explosive-laden suicide boat | ||||
| while refueling, Aden, | ||||
| Yemen, 12 October 2000. | 17 | 39 | 0 | 0 |
| American Flight 77 hijacked by | ||||
| terrorists struck the Pentagon. | ||||
| Casualties include 33 sailors, | ||||
| 6 Department of the Navy civilians, | ||||
| and 3 Navy civilian contractors | ||||
| killed and 4 sailors and 2 | ||||
| Department of the Navy civilians | ||||
| wounded. | ||||
| Arlington, VA, 11 Sep 2001. | 33 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Operation Enduring Freedom, | ||||
| (primarily Afghanistan), | ||||
| 7 Oct 2001 through 22 Sep 2015. | 83 | 418 | 378 | 4,946 |
| Lance Corporal Antonio Sledd | ||||
| killed, and another Marine wounded | ||||
| by terrorists during Exercise | ||||
| Eager Mace in Kuwait, 8 Oct 2002. | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Operation Iraqi Freedom, Iraq, | ||||
| 19 Mar 2003 through 22 Sep 2015. | 64 | 646 | 852 | 8,626 |
Note: Data, particularly prior to World War I, are based upon incomplete and sometimes conflicting sources. Not listed above are the hundreds of deaths and injuries annually resulting from nonhostile accidents, illnesses, homicides and suicides. Casualties in Russia during 1918 are also included with World War I totals. Casualties in Cambodia in 1968 to 1975, as well as those in Vietnam in 1975 are also included with Vietnam War totals. Hostile incidents causing casualties during Operation Enduring Freedom (War on Terrorism) occurring outside of Afghanistan are listed separately though presumably included in the totals. Statistics for Killed in Action for Vietnam, Desert Storm, Operation Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan) and Operation Iraqi Freedom include the hostile deaths subcategories of Killed in Action, Died of Wounds, and Died While Detained, Missing in Action - Declared Dead, and Captured - Declared Dead. See the Defense Casualty Analysis System website for a more detailed breakdown of casualties.
Suggestions for additions or corrections to the above list are welcomed when accompanied by a photocopy of supporting documentation. Mail suggestions to the Website Committee, Naval History and Heritage Command, Washington Navy Yard, 805 Kidder Breese Street SE, Washington DC 20374-5060.
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