I think the 19,000 killed number includes both sides. That’s a lot of dead.
I think the 19,000 killed number includes both sides. That’s a lot of dead.
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That is the Americans only. The Germans lost more than us.
During the Battle of the Bulge:
The United States suffered over 80,000 casualties, including 19,246 dead and more than 23,000 American troops taken prisoner.
Allied losses numbered 20,876 killed, 42,893 wounded, and 23,554 captured/missing.
Approximately 19,000 American soldiers were killed in action, with 47,500 wounded and 23,000 missing.
At least it doesn't have any incentive to be dishonest.
Yet even early estimates were over three times the casualties suffered by Americans during D-Day, Battle of the Bulge, Saipan, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa combined. Through these and other battles the American people had absorbed a profound shock caused by over a million combat and combat related casualties since June 1944 compared to a quarter million in the previous two and a half years. After VE day Stimson perceived the first signs of war weariness as many felt the war was over and he had to answer critics in Congress who could not understand why the Armed Forces continued to demand more men and women enter service. He said, “the country will not be satisfied unless every effort is made to shorten the war”.
I remember reading about one young man who worked for Western Union. The government notified wives and parents of serviceman deaths by telegram. He quit his job, because he was fed up with being the death angel.
| 21-26 Dec 44 | Bastogne | https://dupuyinstitute.org/pdf/v2n1.pdf | |||||
| Troops | Tanks | Losses | %day | Tanks | %day | CEV | |
| US 101st AbnD | 20,441 | 105 | 2,046 | 2.0 | 103 | 16.3 | 0.90 |
| Ger XLVII Pz Corps | 36,678 | 351 | 1,662 | 0.9 | 50 | 2.8 | 1.11 |