Brig Posted May 8, 2015 Share #1 Posted May 8, 2015 Looking at a USMC casualty card, it has 'DIS' for type of casualty. No idea what it means, can anyone enlighten me? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BROBS Posted May 8, 2015 Share #2 Posted May 8, 2015 disease. http://www.mcu.usmc.mil/historydivision/Pages/PDF%20Files/WWII%20Casualty%20Types.pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doyler Posted May 8, 2015 Share #3 Posted May 8, 2015 Died In Service...if Irecall correctly Probably anything from an accident,heart attack,injury non battle etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
268th C.A. Posted May 8, 2015 Share #4 Posted May 8, 2015 There you go Doyler comes through again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brig Posted May 8, 2015 Author Share #5 Posted May 8, 2015 tango Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doyler Posted May 8, 2015 Share #6 Posted May 8, 2015 There you go Doyler comes through again! Not sure its correct but had seen it for Army personnel years ago on a form or letter to the family as the man died from injuries in a vehicle crash in England Bryan has a list posted for the USMC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bellasilva Posted May 8, 2015 Share #7 Posted May 8, 2015 I agree with died in service. I've seen a couple examples of these with follow up information as to how the serviceman died. Most recent was a Vietnam SSgt. who died of a heart attack during a firefight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brig Posted May 9, 2015 Author Share #8 Posted May 9, 2015 Well, the man was a Marine, and Brobs' link seems to be the actual codes used by those casualty cards. Man was likely on Guadalcanal, so disease would be quite possible Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doyler Posted May 9, 2015 Share #9 Posted May 9, 2015 Well, the man was a Marine, and Brobs' link seems to be the actual codes used by those casualty cards. Man was likely on Guadalcanal, so disease would be quite possible Agreed lots of malaria there.I knew a pilot who flew off of there named J.J.Powell.He contracted Malaria.Dengue Fever was also a common afliction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bellasilva Posted May 9, 2015 Share #10 Posted May 9, 2015 Gotcha..makes sense. Every researchable item I have from a PTO infantry vet eventually leads to them contracting malaria and suffering with it throughout their lives Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BROBS Posted May 9, 2015 Share #11 Posted May 9, 2015 it could very well be different for Army vs USMC. looks like there is all sorts of info for USMC from their site. Never looked at it before this. https://www.mcu.usmc.mil/historydivision/SitePages/Home.aspx -Brian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Hudson Posted August 31, 2016 Share #12 Posted August 31, 2016 I have been doing some research in the USMC Casualty Card database and found they use casualty codes not in that list. The one I encountered is "SS (CF)" - they also have just plain "SS." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted September 14, 2016 Share #13 Posted September 14, 2016 If You ask Bill the Patch and Me, Died in Service is thee common heading on WWI trough Korea/Vietnam tombstones in the Cemeteries here abouts in Glendale Queens, we spent years exploring them back in the 70s, and would look for soldiers graves, like in the Jewish cemeteries. In the Jewish ones a lot of these from the Great War had porcelain photos of them on these tall narrow Hebrew tombstones, sometimes in civilian clothes, with like you know, derbys or straw hats on, and sometimes in uniform, either with a Campaign hat or Overseas cap on. Now for those who were Killed in Action, it would say Killed in Action. I suspect now that most of the Died in Service ones, died from the Spanish Flu right, there was so many of them in one particular Jewish Cemetery we would go to, outnumbering I think the ones marked Killed in Action. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BILL THE PATCH Posted September 14, 2016 Share #14 Posted September 14, 2016 Yes Kevin I remember. I still do it. I work for a church which has a cemetery. I still look at all the graves of vets just to read them. Replace flags that have fallen etc, etc. Sent from my XT1031 using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garandomatic Posted September 14, 2016 Share #15 Posted September 14, 2016 Gotcha..makes sense. Every researchable item I have from a PTO infantry vet eventually leads to them contracting malaria and suffering with it throughout their lives I'll second that. I was given a wonderful WWII 41st Div. uniform by a local family, and had Geoff pull his files. They of course burned up, but his medical info survived and it had something like 6 pages of miscellaneous tropical afflictions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medalcollector Posted October 1, 2018 Share #16 Posted October 1, 2018 Does anyone know the meaning of casualty code "SS"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Hudson Posted October 3, 2018 Share #17 Posted October 3, 2018 Does anyone know the meaning of casualty code "SS"? There are a couple of references to this on the forum and a google search turns up another, but so far nothing as to what it means. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted October 4, 2018 Share #18 Posted October 4, 2018 There are a couple of references to this on the forum and a google search turns up another, but so far nothing as to what it means. Severely or Serious.............something?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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