"The title of ""Other Losses"" derives from the heading of a column in weekly reports of the U.S. Army's theater provost marshal, which "Other Losses" states is actually a "body count" of dead prisoners.Cowdrey states that, in many cases, as explained by the footnotes in the very documents themselves, the "other losses" were transfers between zones and camps, which were regularly done for a variety of reasons, none of them sinister and all properly noted in the accompanying documents.