[Moneyguy1]

Actual WW II figures:


Deaths (verified)

Merchan MArine 9512

Marines 19733

Army 234,874

Navy 36958

Coast Guard 574

Total killed 295,790

Wounded 670,846

(I would rather see the numbers rounded; numbers this specific are, to me, questionable.)


As for the U-boat war, I addressed this in another thread. True, by mid 1944, the effect on shipping was greatly diminished because aircraft were then available to patrol the area of the Atlantic between North America and Europe that previously had received no air cover. From 1939 through 1943 the German sub-mariners called those years "The Happy Times"

And WHAT far Eastern fleet? Most was either sunk or disabled in late 1941-early 1942. Kinda like Hitler depending on his imaginary regiments in early 1945....

Would the Royal Navy actually been a factor in an invasion by the Germans had the RAF been destroyed rather that changing dirction and going after cities instead? Could the Royal Navy been effective against an air invasion by paratroopers? Landing craft? Once captured, the Royal Navy would have had limited options. Surrender, sink themselves like the Germans did after WW I (or the French after they were defeated in 1940), or run to a friendly port and either sit out the remainder of the war or fight as part of one of the other allied navies.

pat...Don't let your desire to win ever argument cloud your sense of history. The world is not stark black and white; it is all shades in between.