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Re: Placing the Fairey Battle.
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Originally Posted by Franek Grabowski
Soviets claimed they have lost some 600,000 men in Poland in 1944/45 alone. US lost some 180,000 servicemen during the whole war, and you cannot say they were not fighting.
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But do read what most German veteran memoirs say about the respective combat prowess of US and Soviet soldiers. E.g. Otto Carius makes some very interesting remarks. Overall, it can be said that Yanks (all possible insults intented) let the others do the bloodiest work. To put these "huge" losses of 180,000 KIA in perspective: it is only slightly over 2 times the KIA suffered by Finland and less than a third of the losses of the ACW. The US was the only major combatant whose existence was not in slightest jeopardy even after the direst military defeat (if FDR´s One World dreams are not counted as such).
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