How come the vast majority of US Casualties in World War II occurred in 1944-45?
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>December 1944
And a WINTER month was the Bloodiest no less
How come the vast majority of US Casualties in World War II occurred in 1944-45?
Austin Rogers
Eli Diaz
Cold weather sucks yo
Christian Gutierrez
More so than December 1941/42/43? Hmmmm
Christopher Howard
Good question.....for somebody else
Bentley Brooks
>what is the Battle of the Bulge
owo
Nicholas Davis
Getting closer to Japan
> Iwo Jima
>Okinawa
The whole reason we have been issuing Purple Hearts meant for the Japan main island invasion is because we knew it’s was only going to get bloodier. Why we used the biggest bomb we could
Noah Taylor
because we invaded Europe in 1944 you fucking moron
Joseph Butler
>enemies back is against the wall
>moving further away from the Mediterranean
>battle of the bulge
Adrian Clark
That’s like asking why American Casualties in World War One were almost all in the Autumn of 1918
William Baker
The Allies were fighting in Italy in 1943, and heavy fighting took place in New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.
It just seems so bizarrely lopsided
Austin Bennett
Because things didn't really start get going till pretty late in the war, webm related. Also the island hopping in the Pacific took a toll.
Thomas Scott
I’ve always thought it was an Interesting contrast between the Two World Wars how the fighting of WWI was intense from March-November but everything got quiet in the Winter...unlike WWII where some of the heaviest fighting was in the Winter
Lucas Ramirez
There were about 600,000 allied troops on the Italian front at any one time.
At its peak, there were over 4,000,000 allied troops on the Western Front.
Gavin Williams
Probably because the big guns were finally unleashed at D-Day you dunce. Which was in 1944.
Thomas Jenkins
All of the Western Front, the Philippines Campaign, the attempts to take the Gustav and Gothic lines in Italy, and the Battles of Okinawa and Iwo Jima along with the Palau and Mariana Islands Campaign took place in the last 18 months of the war.
Luis Diaz
You know why.
John Reed
Why?
Ryder Howard
>D-Day and France
What the fuck, why didn't the Germans have a better kill count? They were in absolutely perfect defensive positions, had better weapons, and most were vets from the Eastern Front.
Gavin Miller
They only had one division of Eastern Front veterans manning a single beach. The rest of the defenses along the Normandy coast were manned by conscripts and reserve units because nobody seriously thought the Allies would land in Normandy.
Colton Lee
>They were in absolutely perfect defensive positions
outnumbered, no fuel, no logistics, too little fuel, no air support at all, hardly a 'perfect defensive position'
>had better weapons
no
>and most were vets from the Eastern Front.
doesn't help much when you lack the basic necessities to put up a fight
Joshua Roberts
It wasn’t a low count by any means (34,000 American Dead is the most of any battle in American history and greater than the Us death toll for the entire Korean War), given the size of the forces deployed there and that casualties were also suffered by the British and Canadians.
Justin Barnes
The fighting in Lorraine, Alsace, Cote d’Azure and Normandy etc killed over 60,000 Americans, not sure what so low about that
Alexander Fisher
hedgerows are some bullshit
Hudson Gutierrez
Oliver Moore
Heh
Joseph Russell
Looking at this really makes it obvious that it was the end of 1941 that was the turning point for Germany.