To: Retain Mike
My dad served in Europe and he told me things that broke my heart
2 posted on
11/11/2024 2:09:36 PM PST by
SMARTY
(In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
To: Retain Mike
93% of that American Army were draftees, pretty much it was a war of draftee against draftee everywhere, Germans included.
4 posted on
11/11/2024 2:18:45 PM PST by
ansel12
((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
To: Retain Mike
I always heard merchant mariners had the highest death rate.
5 posted on
11/11/2024 2:26:11 PM PST by
PghBaldy
(12/14/12 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15/12 - 1030am - Obama team scouts photo-op locations.)
To: Retain Mike
For the US Army in WWII, the highest % of turnover due to casualties was in the 4th Infantry Division (252.3%), followed by the 9th Infantry Division (240.4%); only three other divisions - all infantry divisions - in the Army had a casualty rate over 200%. Sobering enough, but then - as mentioned in the article - the brunt of all that was suffered by the rifle platoons.
Pretty grim.
8 posted on
11/11/2024 3:02:30 PM PST by
niteowl77
Some combat infantrymen lied about their age to enlist (and I think it showed):
12 posted on
11/11/2024 3:27:56 PM PST by
Who is John Galt?
("...mit Pulver und Blei, Die Gedanken sind frei!")
To: Retain Mike
Real Men
Toughest SOB’s to walk the planet.
To: Retain Mike
16 posted on
11/11/2024 7:19:52 PM PST by
Sequoyah101
(Donald John Trump. First man to be Elected to the Presidency THREE times since FDR.)
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