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In Reply to: RE: We lost 300K people in WWII. posted by rivervalley817 on August 30, 2021 at 12:23:55:
than the US did in the entire war in both theaters.
According to Wikipedia, the US had 297,000 combat deaths in the second world war, 113k non combat deaths (nearly as many bomber crews died in training as in combat, for example), and 670K wounded.
And that's what the history books say as well. My shelves are lined with them.
Eisenhower's whole approach in the ETO to use firepower to minimize casualties, even if it mean a slower advance into Germany. It's the main reason why he didn't drive to Berlin. The city was going to be in the Soviet zone anyway, why suffer the casualties?
The battles in the Pacific were bloody, but small scale compared to Europe. There were really two different wars since there was no real way for Japan and Germany to co-ordinate operations. Us vs. Japan in the Pacific and Germany vs. the Soviet Union with the US and the British helping out in Europe.
By the time the Western allies invaded Normandy, German defeat was already certain.
The blissful counterstroke-a considerable new message.
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