re: Which War Would Result In The Most Severe PTSD For Soldiers?

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Well to be fair, a lot of major battles in the Pacific technically lasted a couple months with most of the major action happening in the span of weeks. It's the extreme loss of life that sets WWI apart.

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True. And another thing about WWI was how even when there were periods of "quiet" between battles, there were still daily losses on a steady basis. The British even coined the term "wastage" to describe men lost under those circumstances.

And then there was the artillery. Before major battles there would be day upon day of unceasing artillery bombardments. The scale of these barrages in WWI dwarfed anything seen in the Pacific, or even Europe other than perhaps some of the major Soviet artillery preparation barrages.

I guess the best way to describe WWI is to say it was a slow meat grinder that never ceased from 1914 until 1918. It was an unrelenting hell.