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re: Would you rather have gone “over the top” in WWI or been on the first wave on D-Day?
Posted on 5/23/18 at 3:39 pm to lsudave1
Posted on 5/23/18 at 3:39 pm to lsudave1
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Allied casualties on June 6 have been estimated at 10,000 killed, wounded, and missing in action: 6,603 Americans, 2,700 British, and 946 Canadians.
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Estimated that 27,000 French soldiers were killed on August 22, 1914.
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n The World Crisis, Winston Churchill used figures from French parliamentary records of 1920 to give French casualties from 5 August to 5 September 1914 of 329,000 killed, wounded and missing, German casualties from August to November of 677,440 men and British casualties in August and September of 29,598 men.[41] By the end of August, the French Army had suffered 75,000 dead, of whom 27,000 were killed on 22 August.
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Plus you had much better medical care in WW2. I think you would be safer there.
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Posted on 5/23/18 at 3:41 pm to TigerDeacon
Let's not even talk about the use of poison gas in WWI that everyone agreed that was so horrible they didn't use it in battle in WWII.
Posted on 5/23/18 at 3:42 pm to TigerDeacon
This is about the first wave of D-day not overall though
Posted on 5/23/18 at 3:52 pm to TigerDeacon
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Estimated that 27,000 French soldiers were killed on August 22, 1914
And let’s not forget on the FIRST DAY of the Battle of the Somme, the British suffered 57,000 casualties, including jsut shy of 20,000 killed. And that battle raged from July 1 to Nov. 1. By the time it was over almost half a million British soldiers would become causalties. The French (who were losing about a half million at Verdin AT THE SAME TIME) lost 200,000 on the Somme as well. The Germans lost about a half a million on the Somme while also losing almost 400,000 at Verdun.
And this was 1916. The war was already two years in with almost another two years to go.
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