Detailed Casualty Information
Introduction and Explanation Key
Detailed casualty information for operation Nomad was compiled in six different sorting arrangements or reports to facilitate user access.
The reports are all in the same data format in that the columns (vertical) all contain the same data in the same order. But for each of the six different arrangements the rows (horizontal) are ordered differently depending upon how the information was arranged.
For the most part the information contained in each column is fairly obvious, but more detail for the Company, Documentation, and GO# columns is provided in the Interpretation Key near the end of this document.
The six arrangements, along with a brief description of how that information is arranged and how best to use that specific report or arrangement, are as follows:
010 LAST NAME ORDER
This is the primary casualty list and is arranged by Last and then First Name (column 1) order. So the first column of this report has names in alphabetic order, beginning with Abbott and ending with Zuniga.
It is primarily useful for looking for a specific member of the 24th Infantry Division who was a casualty of Operation Nomad if you know that person’s name.
Once you have located that individual then you can scan across the table to determine the type of casualty, when it occurred and other related information.
020 UNIT - LAST NAME ORDER
Suppose however you want to look at all the casualties by the Unit they were in during Nomad. Notice that the Unit is at the rightmost column of the report and begins with the 13th Field Artillery, which suffered three casualties in Nomad according to this data. The next unit in this arrangement is the 19th Infantry Regiment, my unit by the way, and that the first casualty listed is Mr. Able, who was in my section at the time of his injury. The 19th didn’t fare so well as 23 pages later we find Mr. Zuniga again as the last member of the 19th on this list. All the names within a unit are then arranged in alphabetic order on name.
Immediately after Mr. Zuniga, the Unit designation switches to the 21st Infantry Regiment and the first name occurring there is Mr. Augilera. The last casualty with the 21st is Mr. Zonca. Etc.
030 COMPANY - UNIT - LAST NAME ORDER
For a relatively limited number of casualty records Ms. Helm added the specific Company to which the person was assigned during Operation Nomad. This data arrangement then orders the casualty records first in Company order (Able, Baker, Charlie, etc.), and next in Unit order and finally within these two they are arranged alphabetically by Last and First Name.
This report is only nine pages long in contrast to the 52 pages in the above reports. The reason for this is that only a limited amount of such information was available.
How may this be used? To see if per chance any of your comrades in your Company may appear in this list.
040 CASUALTIES - LAST NAME ORDER
This report is first arranged by the information in the Casualty Column (the 10th column) and within that on Last, First Name. A numerical sequence number was added at the left of the Name column to facilitate counting casualties.
This arrangement would be of most use to just evaluate total casualties. For a detailed definition of the entry in this column please see the Interpretation Key near the end of this document.
050 DATE - LAST NAME ORDER
This report is primarily ordered by the information in the Date Column (Column 11) and then by Last, First Name order (Column 1).
This arrangement is useful to evaluate the casualties on any given Operation Nomad date. A numerical sequence number has been added in the leftmost column to facilitate counting casualties by date.
060 DATE - CASUALTY - LAST NAME ORDER
The last report is arranged similarly to the above report in that it first arranged by the date of the casualty (Date Column – column 11). Then it was ordered by the Type of Casualty (column 10), and finally arranged by Name.
This report may be useful to determine casualties by Date and Type, but if you do wish to compile such information please see the next section first.
NOMAD CASUALTY SUMMARY TABLE
If you are interested in analyzing casualties by Date and Type, we have already performed some analyses of the data. It is presented in both tabular and graphical form in a one-page summary obtainable by clicking on the above link.
Acrobat Reader’s Search Power:
Ms. Helm first compiled this information with a Microsoft Works Spread Sheet. She then sent it me and I converted it first to an Excel spread sheet where the formatting and arranging was done. Next it was converted to the Adobe Portable Document Format with Adobe Acrobat Professional 7.0.8 so that it would be universally available to anyone with Adobe Reader on their computers. Adobe Reader 7 or higher is recommended and may be obtained at: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html
One of the strengths of Acrobat Reader is its Search and Find capability. Suppose for example you want to find all the casualties of Operation Nomad from Los Angeles. We did not provide you with a report that will enable you to do that.
Here is how one might go about doing this. Open Report 010 above (010 LAST NAME ORDER) with Adobe Reader. Then click on the Search or Field Glasses icon. The Search pdf window will open on the right hand side of the screen. Enter “Los Angeles” in the “What word or phrase would you like to search for?” Hit enter. Almost immediately you will find there were 81 casualties of Operation Nomad from Los Angeles. You may view each one of the records the Search command located.
You may also use the Find option to sequentially find each occurrence of the words “Los Angeles.” You could do similarly for “Purple Heart” and find there are 58 such listings. Search and Find are powerful tools to locate a given record in this system and may be used on all of the reports.
T.J. Thiel, E. Company, 19th Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division, 1951-52.