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re: Top 10 Deadliest Battles in American History
Posted on 11/22/16 at 7:19 am to RollTide1987
Posted on 11/22/16 at 7:19 am to RollTide1987
quote:And the civilians' situation there was terrible. The Red Army were collectively using their dicks as instruments of terror on anything alive in Eastern Germany.
I can't imagine how intense the Battle of Berlin was. 1.3 million casualties in just three weeks of fighting.
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Posted on 11/22/16 at 7:37 am to Titus Pullo
I love visiting Shiloh, it's about an hour or so from where I live. But as you said it can get quite depressing when you think about what happened there. Always so weird going to a secluded spot during spring/fall and thinking "this is how it was 150 years ago, except with gunfire everywhere".
Posted on 11/22/16 at 8:09 am to SlapahoeTribe
quote:
The War of Northern Agression took more Americans than any other war.
Yeah and it isn't even close.
American Civil War Deaths
Posted on 11/22/16 at 8:12 am to Titus Pullo
Posted on 11/22/16 at 8:16 am to RollTide1987
1. Over 400 years of oppression, slavery, and racism.
Posted on 11/22/16 at 8:20 am to TROLA
quote:
Compare that list to the top ten in Russia/Germans campaign during WW2.. doesn't diminish our sacrifices but puts them in perspective
The Battle of Stalingrad (23 August 1942 – 2 February 1943) - 478,741 personnel killed or missing
6 months, nearly 2,700 a day. Let that sink in. 113 men (and in USSR's case, women as well) an hour. Jesus Christ.
Can you imagine the national shitfit that would result from those kinds of losses in today's America?
Posted on 11/22/16 at 8:26 am to RollTide1987
Damn, those battles in the Pacific were brutal.
Posted on 11/22/16 at 8:41 am to RollTide1987
You forgot Trump vs Clinton, 63,515,588 killed
Posted on 11/22/16 at 8:46 am to RollTide1987
Shiloh, more like guy blow
Posted on 11/22/16 at 8:54 am to soccerfüt
quote:Mine too - he flew the Marine photographic version of the B-24. As the line would move, they would set up a new runway, then he'd fly over the Japanese positions at low atltitude photographing them.
My dad was there for Number 3.
He said as they moved up to a new base, he'd see piles of Japanese rifles and bayonets. He took one home, still has it in the house.
Posted on 11/22/16 at 9:51 am to RollTide1987
My teachers must have sucked because I always thought Antietam was the bloodiest battle in the civil war.
Posted on 11/22/16 at 10:56 am to BOSCEAUX
Antietam was the bloodiest DAY of the Civil War.
Posted on 11/22/16 at 6:50 pm to RollTide1987
Battle of Chickamauga
Union
16,170 casualties
(1,657 killed
9,756 wounded
4,757 captured/missing)
Confederate
18,454 casualties
(2,312 killed
14,674 wounded
1,468 captured/missing)
Union
16,170 casualties
(1,657 killed
9,756 wounded
4,757 captured/missing)
Confederate
18,454 casualties
(2,312 killed
14,674 wounded
1,468 captured/missing)
Posted on 11/22/16 at 7:15 pm to soccerfüt
Manassas N° 2
Sharpsburg
Sharpsburg
Posted on 11/22/16 at 7:32 pm to White Roach
quote:
Antietam was the bloodiest DAY of the Civil War.
Of any U.S. war for that matter.
Posted on 11/22/16 at 7:37 pm to soccerfüt
quote:
My dad was there for Number 3.
It's why we never ate SPAM at our house, he had it cold there for about a month as his exclusive food source.
Would that this was the worst issue he had with his visit to Okinawa.
its why we nuked Japan.
Posted on 11/22/16 at 7:47 pm to soccerfüt
quote:
The Red Army were collectively using their dicks as instruments of terror on anything alive in Eastern Germany.
Not hard to understand after the atrocities committed by the Germans.
We've never experienced anything comparable, fortunately.
Posted on 11/22/16 at 7:56 pm to Tigris
We are so lucky to be surrounded by oceans and non-threats as neighbors.
other comment: I couldn't fathom being in command and deciding who is going to die day after day. I am sure if you are in that position you rationalize it by saying someone has to do it but I don't believe I could.
other comment: I couldn't fathom being in command and deciding who is going to die day after day. I am sure if you are in that position you rationalize it by saying someone has to do it but I don't believe I could.
Posted on 11/22/16 at 8:15 pm to RollTide1987
The majority of those battles took place before antibiotics were discovered. Thats what caused many deaths in WWI so I would imagine that would be the case with the civil war.
Posted on 11/22/16 at 9:21 pm to SlapahoeTribe
quote:
04. Battle of Gettysburg (July 1-3, 1863): 7,863 men killed
quote:
these numbers seem way off.
quote:
Casualties at Gettysburg totaled 23,049 for the Union (3,155 dead, 14,529 wounded, 5,365 missing). Confederate casualties were 28,063 (3,903 dead, 18,735 injured, and 5,425 missing), more than a third of Lee's army.
Nearly one-third of the total forces engaged at Gettysburg became casualties.
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