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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

In terms of fatalities Bulge was second, Gettysburg fourth:

1 Battle of Meuse-Argonne World War I: 26,277
2 Battle of the Bulge (WW2) 19,276
3 Battle of Okinawa (WW2) 12,513
4 Battle of Gettysburg (Civil) 7,863
5 Battle of Guadalcanal (WW2) 7,099
6 Battle of Iwo Jima (WW2) 6,821
7 Antietam (Civil) 3,654
8 Battle of Shiloh (Civil) 3,482
9 Bull Run II (Civil) 3,000
10 Battle of Saipan (WW2) 2,949


23 posted on 10/08/2009 6:02:52 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (The People have abdicated our duties; ... and anxiously hope for just two things: bread and circuses)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Thanks for that correction...I thought G-burg was in the 50-60K range, and frankly hadn’t even thought the US suffered anything like that number of concentrated KIA in WWI at all.


28 posted on 10/08/2009 6:11:13 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (It's better to give a Ford to the Kidney Foundation than a kidney to the Ford Foundation.)
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