biggest casualties

how bout the ardennes campaign....any of you guys has the exact casualties of that one...i think it is as bloody as stalingrad....

I think the Normandy thing posted on page 1 is Normandy Campaign, not Normandy landing - during the landing the Americans only took 2000 KIA's.

 

Originally posted by Ralo In the American Civil War the bloodiest Battle was the Battle of Antetium Im not sure of the estimates and sorry for any mispelled words

Town is called Antietam and it was one the bloodiest battles of the Civil War. On a single day (September 17, 1862) more soldiers were wounded or died in a single day than in any single day of any other battle of the Civil War. Losses (wounded + dead) 12,410 Union and 10,700 Confederate.
Another interesting fact is that US lost more soldiers in the Civil War than in all  wars combined during all of its history and up to the Vietnam War.

In two hours of battle Hannibal slaughtered 70,000 Romans on the fields of Cannae - bloodiest day in history. (other than natural disasters)

Originally posted by Ralo In the American Civil War the bloodiest Battle was the Battle of Antetium Im not sure of the estimates and sorry for any mispelled words

more people were killed at Gettysburg, but that took place over 3 days

i just whipped out my 2003 Guiness Book of World Records, and it lists the Bloodiest Ancient Battle as The Battle of Cannae (85,700 men)...it also mentioned a reported 250,000 killed at Plataea, but this is considered unreliable as are many other ancient battles

Bloodiest Modern Battle is listed as Stalingrad, with 1, 109,000 killed, along with ovef half a million Soviet wounded.  also mentions the Somme as having 1.22 million casualties (includes wounded)

i dont know, maybe Mr. Guiness is wrong, but thats what it says
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i have always wondered how many soviets died in on the Russian Front on June 6, 1944.

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guiness also lists leningrad as the largest seige of all time (including civilian casualties....i don't know how they decide civlian vs military on the russian front)

I can never understand nationalism, how can you feel proud over something you had nothing whatsoever to do with and weren even around to take part in?

shiloh?

what shiloh is this, the only shiloh i know was in the american civil war (19th century)

Originally posted by dark_one 20mil civilian 7 mil military That's how it is here. Also up to Verdun Russia holds the records for the bloodiest battles of the 20th century makes me feel proud in a weird way, proud that we endured all that and survived.

 

Those casualties are for 1941-1945... total civilian casualties at Leningrad were about 1.6 million.  You probably meant it as so, but I just wanted to clear it up.