D-Day footage

[-Tigger-]

just saw this, and its interesting to actually see the footage from the actual event

click here 2 watch

it shows them planning, gathering together, moving towards the beaches and then going onto them

scary stuff..

[DevilDog#1]

Yeah I saw some on History Channel. Peopl were falling left and right...

[atholon]

You sure gain a new appreciation for what they did. I honestly think that other countries take this for granted. Ones that were not even involved in the War. If you think about it, if Russia, the USA and UK or Austrailia fell... there'd be no stopping them.

[zaitsev]

Military Casualties in World War I
1914-1918

Belgium 45,550
British Empire 942,135
France 1,368,000
Greece 23,098
Italy 680,000
Japan 1,344
Montenegro 3,000
Portugal 8,145
Romania 300,000
Russia 1,700,000
Serbia 45,000
United States 116,516
Austria-Hungary 1,200,000
Bulgaria 87,495
Germany 1,935,000
Ottoman Empire 725,000

Casualties in World War II

Country Military Civilian Total
USSR 12 million 17 million 29 million
Poland 597,000 5.86 million 6.27 million
Germany 3.25 million 2.44 million 5.69 million
Yugoslavia 305,000 1.35 million 1.66 million
Romania 450,000 465,000 9 15,000
Hungary 200,000 600,000 800,000
France 245,000 350,000 595,000
Italy 380,000 153,000 533,000
Great Britain 403,000 92,700 495,000
United States 407,000 6,000 413,000
Czechoslovakia 7,000 315,000 322,000
Holland 13,700 236,000 249,000
Greece 19,000 140,000 159,000
Belgium 76,000 23,000 99,000

[DevilDog#1]

Holy Cow! Look at those deaths!!

[Rampage.]

yea alot of people do take it for granted, gotta be proud of what they did.

[DevilDog#1]

My family members took part in 1 and 2 so I know ... They all made it back in one piece ... Except for the usual nightmares ...

[atholon]

holy crap... I never realized how many Russians died. It took 5 million Nazi deaths to stop them...that is freaky.

[Roshi]

Originally posted by zaitsev
Military Casualties in World War I
1914-1918

Belgium 45,550
British Empire 942,135
France 1,368,000
Greece 23,098
Italy 680,000
Japan 1,344
Montenegro 3,000
Portugal 8,145
Romania 300,000
Russia 1,700,000
Serbia 45,000
United States 116,516
Austria-Hungary 1,200,000
Bulgaria 87,495
Germany 1,935,000
Ottoman Empire 725,000

Casualties in World War II

Country Military Civilian Total
USSR 12 million 17 million 29 million
Poland 597,000 5.86 million 6.27 million
Germany 3.25 million 2.44 million 5.69 million
Yugoslavia 305,000 1.35 million 1.66 million
Romania 450,000 465,000 9 15,000
Hungary 200,000 600,000 800,000
France 245,000 350,000 595,000
Italy 380,000 153,000 533,000
Great Britain 403,000 92,700 495,000
United States 407,000 6,000 413,000
Czechoslovakia 7,000 315,000 322,000
Holland 13,700 236,000 249,000
Greece 19,000 140,000 159,000
Belgium 76,000 23,000 99,000

wheres Japans Death Total for World War II?

[zaitsev]

Country Military Civilian Total
Japan 1,506,000 300,000 1,806,000

russia had some of the biggest battles in the war thus the higher casualties, Battle of Moscow, Battle of Stalingrad etc

[VooDoo-]

Originally posted by DevilDog#1
Holy Cow! Look at those deaths!!

i'm not surpprised you didn't know that ... all people ever point out is the holocaust....

[-live-wire-]

Thank God for the blood of Heros..

[JonM]

so many people died...it's to bad. and in d-day many troops did die... god bless them and their families

[Lucky]

wowzers...

[BADDOG]

These horrendous figures reflect the stupidity of humankind, all those lives lost is far to high a price to pay so we must find a way eventually to resolving our differences by means other than warfare.

Regards

[-Tigger-]

Originally posted by BADDOG
These horrendous figures reflect the stupidity of humankind, all those lives lost is far to high a price to pay so we must find a way eventually to resolving our differences by means other than warfare.

Regards

2 bad the chances of that happening is what 1 in a million? there was an article on a newspaper of some countries budget on the military and then AID for poorer countries..

they spent about 40+billion a year on weapons and arms and then 67million on AID..

[Grenademan]

Hey, dont forget Australia! We fought hard too!