Despite being outnumbered and outgunned, the Finnish military, with their knowledge of the terrain and effective guerrilla tactics, inflicted significant casualties on the Soviet forces. The harsh winter conditions also worked to Finland’s advantage. With the gradual arrival of the G.50, these aircr...
World War II was the biggest and bloodiest war in human history, with casualties often estimated at 60-80 million (directly and indirectly). At the peak of the war, more than 50 million men and women were serving in the armed forces of the many combatants. There were many seeds that co...
As the U.S. began to concentrate its economic power toward mobile war operations, the government enacted theProtective Mobilization Plan, in which the National Guard would be inducted into federal service. This gave the Army a protective force of 400,000 troops, which could protect the nation w...
The total strength of the penal units over the 1942-1945 periods amounted to 428,000 men; the casualties rate would be 3-5 times higher versus the losses sustained by regular troops. P.S. 284,344 men and officers were sentenced to death and 157,593 men and officers,out of that number...
We need to believe every report of civilian casualties is investigated and the findings reported publicly, a model of accountability. We believe these things so dearly that we are shocked to read what happened with one airstrike in Syria and rush focus on the coverup not the killing. The ...
In 1943, Allied forces achieved advances in radar that shifted the balance of naval warfare, and the Axis and its U-boats never could match them. Casualties from—and tonnage lost to—U-boats decreased dramatically from 1943 on. Posted by Rob Wallace, STEM Education Coordinator at The National...
In the course of researching the World War 2 military casualties buried at Mount Olivet Cemetery in Fort Worth, TX, I came across the name of Cornelia Clark Fort, who is buried in a cemetery by the same name in Nashville, TN. Cornelia’s headstone reads, “Killed in service to her coun...
The first American casualties in the conflict with Japan fell four years before the infamous surprise attack on Hawaii, on the Yangtze River in China. By James I. MarinoFacing the FoxThe GIs in Tunisia’s Kasserine Pass were in trouble. Their equipment was outdated, their leadership was weak...
The Second World War, despite its many hardships and historians’ subsequent findings to the contrary, is remembered as a time the nation put aside differences and pulled together to fight for freedom. It is therefore unsurprising that memories of the ‘finest hour’ have been frequently invoked...
The commemoration of war is to stop it from reoccurring, Wang added. During the war against Japanese invaders, China suffered a total of 35 million military and non-military casualties — a third of the total casualties of all countries in World War II....