During WWI you easily had 20,000 killed a day.
The flower of European youth.
In Flanders fields...
“During WWI you easily had 20,000 killed a day.
British troops sustained 420,000 casualties—including 125,000 deaths—during the Battle of the Somme.”
The casualties also included 200,000 French troops and 500,000 German soldiers.
“During WWI you easily had 20,000 killed a day.”
On July 1st, 1916 the English lost over 57,000 men.
Artillery had bombarded German positions for almost a week. English Generals ordered that their men advance in file across no man’s land in order to maintain a uniform advance. They counted on the Germans being either dead, disabled or pulled back.
With the Germans having better constructed trenches they were ready for the English.