To: Polybius
"That is as many fatalities in a single day, in a training exercise, as the U.S. has lost in the entire Iraq War.
The American media in 1944 did not use those deaths to try to make the American Home Front believe that America was in a quagmire and was losing the war.
The greatest weapon that America's enemies have today is the American liberal news media."
Dittos on this... the cost of war was far heavier in those days.
Same could be said for many other WWI or WWI or Korea battles. Chosun cost USA 9,000 lives. And yet we didnt bug out, we stayed 3 years and saved south korea again... Or Tawara, a useless piece of insignificant coral on the way to Japan. What was the death toll there? hundreds?
9 posted on
04/27/2004 10:40:11 PM PDT by
WOSG
(http://freedomstruth.blogspot.com - I salute our brave fallen.)
To: WOSG
Or Tawara, a useless piece of insignificant coral on the way to Japan. What was the death toll there? hundreds? About 990 US dead.
17 Japanese survived of the 4836 stationed there.
To: WOSG
Battle of the Bulge, lasted a little over a month, 19,000 killed there. (81,000 American casualties, including 23,554 captured and 19,000 killed).
18 posted on
04/28/2004 12:16:42 AM PDT by
dawn53
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