What is the Battle with Most Casualties?

Question

it's alll about WWII

Answer 1

Not sure exactly, but the Normandy Invasion (D-day) carried alot of casualties, for a single battle.

Answer 2

Seige of Leningrad during WWII - 1.1 million killed. 2nd to that is battle of Stalingrad during WWII - 1 million killed. Most of the deaths were on the Russian sides because at the time Russian soldiers were very poorley equiped/ trained usually like 4 guys to a rifle. Russians really had no other choice but to use mass infantry "cannon fodder" attacks. Enemy at the Gates has a good depiction of this.

Answer 3

In the battle of Stalingrad, from 19 August 1942 to 2 February 1943, only the German Army had 120.000 soldiers killed, 25.000 wounded evacuated by air and 91.000 prisoners. of whom only 5.000 returned home after the war. To these values we must add the losses of German allies (Romania, Hungary and Italy). There are no exact values for them, but the total Axis losses were estimated by the Soviets to be in excess of one million. The Soviet losses, soldiers and civilians, are estimated not less than 200.000. If we consider a total of 400.000 dead for both sides, Soviets and Germans had about 2.500 dead/day during the entire battle.
At Okinawa, the bloodiest battle of the Pacific fought from 1 April to 22 June 1945, the USA had 7.374 killed and 32.056 wounded, while Japan had 107.500 and an unknown number of missing in action. About 1.400 dead/day.

Answer 4

I understand it to be World War 1 - The battle of the Somme? The British Army alone in its first day of the battle suffered its greatest loss and casualties amounting to almost 50,000.

Answer 5

What is a "casualty?" Often, the military considers a casualty to be any person who cannot continue to fight because of death, wound, injury, or sickness.

What is a "battle." If the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are considered to be one battle, and the battle deaths from radiation are counted until all exposed have died (of radiation causes or others), this battle would probalby have the most deaths. About 100,000 people died promptly from each bombing, and survivors continue dying today of their radiation exposure.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualty_%28person%29

Answer 6

The Battle of Iwo Jima

Answer 7

From WW2, the bloodiest battle was the battle of Stalingrad where a whole army group and city were virtually destroyed.

Answer 8

well Im really not sure but Ive heard that the american civil war had over 100 000 casualties in combat not including civillians

Answer 9

The Siege of Leningrad?

Answer 10

Gettysburg.