Casualties Quote by Margot Asquith

There were almost 11,000 American soldiers killed in Germany in April of 1945, the last full month of the war. That's almost as many…

— Rick Atkinson

“The casualties at Antietam numbered four times the total suffered by American soldiers at the Normandy beaches on June 6, 1944. More than twice…

— James M. McPherson

“In the first half of 1944, battle casualty rates for every 1,000 bomber crewmen serving six months in combat included 712 killed or missing…

— Rick Atkinson

“Across Europe some 11 million men lay dead, including 2 million Germans, 1.4 million Frenchmen, and 900,000 British. Another 21 million had been wounded,…

— Liaquat Ahamed

“The Germans had more men killed and wounded at Verdun, 325,000, than all the 230,000 men deployed in the field at Stalingrad twenty-six years later.”

— Joseph E. Persico

In the battle of Kunu-ri, more than 5,000 American soldiers were killed, wounded or taken as prisoners of war. Ninety percent of my unit…

— Charles B. Rangel

“The first-day casualties on the Somme totaled 57,470.”

— Joseph E. Persico

“Only later would the grim tallies for France be known. Between September 1945 and July 1954, Paris sent a total of 489,560 soldiers to…

— Fredrik Logevall

The United States government was proud that, although perhaps 100,000 Iraqis had died in the Gulf War of 1991, there were only 48 American…

— Howard Zinn

“Two hundred and fifty American marines and soldiers were killed, and 1,554 wounded.75 Another 458 ARVN soldiers were killed and an estimated 2,700 wounded.…

— Mark Bowden

In the three years since our nation began operations in Iraq, more than 2,500 Americans have been killed and more than 18,000 Americans have…

— Ike Skelton

The question in my mind is how many additional American casualties is Saddam worth? And the answer is not very damned many.

— Dick Cheney