What were officers' casualty rates among the major powers of WWII?
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This discussion gives some sources that could be a good start. According to it, officer losses were ~10.5% from total for the US (source). For the British, it gives ~9% based on the data for the Libyan campaign (the source seems to be "I.S.O. Playfair, The Mediterranean and the Middle East, vol III; NA WO 201/2834 Middle East Command: Battle Casualties, Libya Campaign, AG Stats", it is referred to in several other publications, but I couldn't find it online). Not really conclusive, but it's something.
And according to the Russian Military Archive data (taken from an article @ p. 122, in Russian)) Soviet losses had ~7% dead officers (970k out of 14241k). Again, it's not a final number, since it does not account for MIA and wounded, but getting more accurate numbers for USSR (or Germany and Japan, for that matter) is unlikely due to the many instances of destroying documents so that they not fall into enemy hands.
Note that, for example, air forces would have disproportionally high officer losses due to the fact that in most armies pilots were lieutenants or higher rank, and rank and file would mostly be airfield/carrier staff, thus I would expect US and Britain to have higher officer losses due to them using more air forces relatively to Germany and USSR.
P.S. Since this is only a partial answer, I wanted to make it a comment, but it turned out much longer than a comment can be.
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