Word: nonbattlefield
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...primary culprit" for the error was an anonymous government clerk, the Pentagon says. The bureaucrat mistakenly added all nonbattlefield U.S. military deaths--20,617--that occurred worldwide during the three-year conflict to the more than 33,000 U.S. battlefield dead in Korea. But only 3,275 of those nonbattlefield deaths--largely due to accidents or disease--occurred in Korea. That yields the new, revised U.S. death count for the war. In a rare example of interservice cooperation, a Pentagon memo notes, "All service historian offices have been advised...and are in agreement with the revision...
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