Killed in action (KIA) is a casualty classification generally used by militaries to describe the deaths of their own personnel at the hands of enemy or...

Wounded in action (WIA) describes combatants who have been wounded while fighting in a combat zone during wartime, but have not been killed. Typically...

1912, service personnel in most countries were not routinely issued with ID tags. As a result, if someone was killed in action and their body was not recovered...

15,000 killed in action 1610–1617 Ingrian War 1611–1613 Kalmar War 1615–1618 Uskok War 1615–1617 Spanish-Savoian War – 2,000 killed in action 1617–1621...

non-fatal injuries are also casualties. In military usage, a casualty is a person in service killed in action, killed by disease, diseased, disabled by injuries...

de l'armée" Total dead were 1,325,000 (675,000 killed in action, 225,000 missing and prisoners killed, 250,000 died of wounds and 175,000 died of disease...

highest-ranking American servicemember killed by hostile action was Army Major General Harold J. Greene, who died in August 2014 during a fragging incident...

prisoners were rescued and Delta Force MSG Joshua Wheeler was killed in action. For his action, he was awarded Distinguished Service Cross, which was later...

Australians were killed and 23,000 wounded in action during World War II. In addition, hundreds more servicemen and women were killed and injured in accidents...

of Barnwell, South Carolina, were also killed in action with the 507th Maintenance Company after falling back in the column to assist the 507th with vehicle...