One historian said it took 1.7 US lives to kill one German soldier during the war and that included all the germans killed in the massive allied bombing campaign.
Would like to see that.
Quick search came up with 141,000 US killed in European theater.
This came up, not verified it’s Wikipedia, but would include deaths resulting from all allied action. Claim seems untrue, but again would like to see source information from professor
“ Total Western Front (1944–1945): While Eastern Front losses were higher, total German deaths/missing in the West from D-Day to the end was near or exceeded 1 million”
That’s actually a really good ratio for an attacking force.
It’s normally 5:1