A couple of thoughts today:
Wasn’t it only two months ago that the Germans launched Operation Citadelle? Things have certainly turned against them in the East. And the Soviets seem enamored with the concept of “body counts” in their press releases.
It’s good to see an article on the effects of America’s submarine campaign against Japan. The results have been exaggerated in tons of shipping sunk. But the effects are not. Japan entered the war with a shortage of merchant shipping, and even with faulty torpedoes, we are chipping into that resource. This year, Japan will suffer a significant net loss (sinking vs. production) and contraction of her merchant fleet. That shortage was exacerbated by the long transit times to her far-flung empire. But suffice to say, we are doing to Japan what the Germans could not do to Britain.
The Russians aren't the only ones who like to quantify their gains. I am working on the Oct. 4 post and noticed this:
According to official German High Command figures broadcast from Berlin today, German troops withdrawing to [censored - HJS] took with them "106,000 head of cattle, 110,000 sheep, 60,000 horses and 62,000 Russian civilians."