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I wonder if Trails, being adrift on his raft, far, far away from lan.... has also drifted away from reality?

France lost about 217,000 people in WWII, the U.S. lost about 417,000, the Japanese 2+ Million, the Chinese 2-3 million, the Germans over 5 million and the Soviets anywhere between 10 and 20 million people. However, the majority of the Soviet losses were in defense of their own country, and not until in 1945 did they move out of their country and into Germany.

Gary



I agree with your numbers, but you don't have the number of German troops that were tied up fighting the Russians all those years. Those men were not available to fight us.

If Hitler had not been so foolish as to open up two fronts, he might have been able to keep a big chunk of western Europe, or at best, it would have taken us many more years to beat him. He might even have gotten the A-bomb first.

Like the man said, "ain't that a kick in the head!"