Re: Teacher, 70, Forced to Retire After Displaying Confederate Flag During Civil War
There were a ton of US Marines in the Phillppines in 1941.
OK I'll give you that too.
As for Wake, the island fell and wasn't retaken until the tail end of the war.
I know. But Japan paid for it with casualties of 15-1 killed in action.
Now, how about those other comparative casualty rates?
Some one with a username like yours should have known that during 1941 Barbarossa there were about 4 Soviet casualties for each German.
Ratios were also favorable for the Germans against:
Poland
Norway-Denmark
France-Netherlands-Belgium-BEF
Yugoslavia
and Greece (even including the Crete campaign).
The only other major German operations through 1941 were, I think:
The Battle of Britain, where ratios were surely unfavorable for the Germans.
Operation Rhineubung, where loss of
Bismarck was far worse than the UK's loss of the much older
Hood.
The submarine campaign, where the military casualties probably favored the Germans, and where casualties to civilian merchant marine crew, who were performing vital strategic duty, were very heavy.
And North Africa, where casualties were probably no worse than 50-50.
So: The German overall 1939-1941 case and the USMC overall 1941-1945 case falsify your comment that the offensive almost
always takes more casualties. In fact, the 1939-1941 Germans and the 1941-1945 USMC offenses
rarely took more casualties.
You should bring this to the attention of those who taught you otherwise.
