I Never said my numbers were the number of people killed. I said here are the number of troops supplied by each side.
I never said Death Toll was the best way to tell. As a matter of fact in the beginning I said the Primary fighting force. Which does not even mean then most troops or people. I said the US provided the men and the weapons. Which is true. From the beginning the US was always sending weapons to the British, they event sent troops in small numbers. The US sent more troops than any other Allied power, except the USSR The shipments were attacked by German U-boats in the Atlantic long before the US was "in the war" The US put Marines in Iceland in march of '41, the Navy had started escorting ships. The US always helped people in a covert way, because the American people did want to get involved in another foreign war. The US was starting to come out of the Great Depression. The last thing they wanted was to send their boys off to a war on foreign soil. When the US was attacked at Pearl Harbor, the people changed their minds. The US had already sent weapons, planes, tanks,etc.. They had already been sending in small groups of troops. >OK Nick, > >You have misrepresented your source. I've found your Encarta reference and >your figures where drawn not from the death toll but from the people >INVOLVED in the war. For reference, here is the paragraph: > >Your reference. People involved . Not killed >This is from Encarta >----------------- >"World War II's basic statistics qualify it as by far the greatest war in >history in terms of human and material resources expended. In all, 61 >countries with 1.7 billion people, three quarters of the world's population, >took part. A total of 110 million people were mobilized for military >service, more than half of those by the USSR (22-30 million), Germany (17 >million), and the United States (16 million). The largest numbers of >active-duty personnel at any one time were: USSR 12,500,000; the United >States 12,245,000; Germany 10,938,000; British Empire 8,720,000; Japan >7,193,000; and China 5,000,000." > >My Figures: >----------------- >My figures are the average from a number of sources. >This list below estimated military dead. > >According to Britannica.com > >Major countries: >Soviet Union: 11,000,000 >Germany: 3,500,000 >China: 1,310,224 >Japan: 1,300,000 >British Commonwealth: 373,372 >Yugoslavia: 305,000 >Romania: 300,000 >United States: 292,131 >United Kingdom: 264,443 >Italy: 242,232 >France: 213,324 >Hungary: 200,000 >Poland: 123,178 >Finland: 82,000 > >Also from Britannica a note of total figures: >"There are no reliable figures for the casualties of the Soviet Union and >China, the two countries in which casualties were undoubtedly greatest. >Mainly for this reason, estimates of total dead in World War II vary >anywhere from 35,000,000 to 60,000,000-a statistical difference of no small >import" > >Separately in the civilian casualties list roughly 5,700,000 Jews were >killed... mostly from Poland. > >It's important to get this information correct. >So saying for example that 16 Millions Americans died is WW2 is completely >inaccurate. The US military death toll was closer to 270,000 (for which I >apologise... my earlier post suggested 500,000). > >Benjamin > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Nick McClure" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2001 2:49 AM >Subject: Re: Ouch > > > > MS Encarta, what would your figures be? > > > > At 02:45 AM 12/15/2001 +1100, you wrote: > > >where the hell did you get those figures.. you are way off > > > > > >"... in reality".... give me a break > > > > > > > > >----- Original Message ----- > > >From: "Nick McClure" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2001 1:32 AM > > >Subject: RE: Ouch > > > > > > > > > > Well, in reality, It was USSR with around 20 Million troops, then >Germany > > > > with 17 Million, then the US with 16 Million, British Empire was next >with > > > > a little over 8 million, then Japan, and China with 6-7 Million each. > > > > > > > > I am not only talking about the European side only. I am also talking > > >about > > > > the Pacific side as well. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-community@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
