The first number is casualties, which is dead and wounded. The second number is KIA only, not casualties. A comparable number to the 33,000 is 1,076,245 US WWII casualties, from here:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military_casualties_of_war
So now we’re at less than 3%, which is bad for a single battle, no doubt, but nothing like 10%.
Thanks. For years there has been a freeper “Deep in the Hurtgen Forest” (I don’t know if he is still here) that made me wonder why I had never heard of it. I kinda had a clue but recently I started reading about it. No wonder it was not widely known. I really read up on it over the last week.
“...it would have saved everybody a lot of time if they had just shot the men as they got off the trucks.” Correspondent Earnest Hemingway.