Somebody told me, don’t know if it’s true, that the attrition rate was about 50% for the Nazis—if you killed half of a squad, the rest would more than likely give up. With the Japs, it was more like 80-85-90%. They would never quit. You had to kill them all.
You had to kill the right 50%. If you disrupted their chain of command enough, the remaining troops would sit down and wait for orders.
The Germans could never figure out how the “anarchistic” Americans were successfully fighting. Then one German General figured out that since war IS anarchy it made the Americans perfectly suited for it.
In so many instances, American officers were killed and the average GI Joe took the initiative to organize the men around him to keep fighting and win the day. Never so much as on the D-Day beaches.