Show DEATHS FEW IN THE ARMY fatalities from battle exceed those dead of disease washington battle death rates in the american army during the great war exceeded the death rates from disease general march announced february 15 in making punic public statistics prepared by the gener general 41 talf taff in past wars disease killed many more men inen than lost their lives under tire fire the battle death rate for the entire american army in this war was twenty per thousand per year in the expeditionary forces it was fifty seven per thousand iper per year the disease death rate was seventeen per thousand per year in the alie expeditionary forces lind and sixteen in the annya thome |