Five fiercest battlefields in WWII?

Answer 1

Stalingrad - 1.8 million dead from both sides
Iwo Jima - suicidal attacks
700,000 - Battle of Moscow (1941–1942)
500,000 - Battle of Smolensk (1941)
400,000 - Battle of Kiev (1941)

Answer 2

By casualty figure:

Battle of Stalingrad over 1.5 million dead
Battle of Leningrad 1.5 million dead
Warsaw uprising 250 000 dead
Battle of Berlin 230 000 dead
Battle of Okinawa 218 000
Battle of Budapest 158 000 -350 000

Battles on the Eastern Front tended to be far more vicious. The atrocities and counter atrocities led to very deep hatred between the two sides. The totalitarian regimes on both sides made it clear they did not tolerate surrender and the treatment towards prisoners made the ordinary soldier reluctant to do so as well despite the harsh conditions. Human life was viewed much more cheaply than it was in other theaters. Attacks were often suicidal. Stalin and Hitler's were indifferent to the casualty rate so long as the objective was achieve so thousands of men would be thrown into a fight without a thought for their survival. The fact that the number that died on the Eastern Front is higher than all other theaters combined is a testament to the fierceness of the battles there.

Edit; Sorry missed some possible candidate battles first time round that could be added to Stalingrad and Leningrad to complete a top 5.

Battle of Kursk (including Prokhorovka) over 1.3 million dead
Battle of Moscow 900 000 dead
First stage of Barbarossa 400 000 dead.

I know casualty figures can be somewhat crude as a measure, but they do help indicate how fierce a battle was and most of these battles had high casualty rates as well as high casualties.

Answer 3

The fiercest battles were all on the Eastern front between Germany and Russia. I'm a Brit, but reality was that most UK or US battles never even got close to what the Russians faced.

The grand daddy of them all was Prokhorovka, which is now mostly forgotten in the West.

The other usual suspects, would be:

Stalingrad
Moscow
Smolensk
and either D-Day or Operation Market Garden

Answer 4

Pearl Harbor, Britian grow to be faltering and there grow to be an apprehension of a conflict on 2 fronts if Britain fell, atomic technologies interior the works in Germany, France and Britain have been our Allies, it might stimulate the financial equipment very much after the variety of crushing melancholy. The ideological "scuffling with against genocide" in easy terms got here later. initially the U. S. did no longer care a lot that Hitler grow to be murdering a lot of folk.

Answer 5

Battle of Stalingrad
Battle of Kursk - over 3500 tanks and 1 million soldiers
Battle of Moscow
Battle of Iwo Jima
Battle of Peleliu
Battle of Okinawa
Battle of Berlin

Answer 6

Ardennes Forest, Battle of the Bulge.
Stalingrad.
Normandy.
Pacific Islands
Midway, naval battle at sea

Answer 7

Battle of Stalingrad - "The Rat War"
Kursk - "Biggest Tank Battle"
Battle of the Bulge - "Last German Offense"
Iwo Jima - "Last land battle of WW2"
D-day - "The New western front"

Answer 8

Caen (Normandy)
Monte Cassino (Italy)
2nd El Alamein (North Africa)
Imphal (Burma)
Kadoka Trail (New Guniea)

Answer 9

My guesses are Stalingrad, D Day, and Crete, but I think you could pick a whole lot more.

Answer 10

Perhaps some of these won't get a mention -

Kohima
Saipan
Monte Cassino
Guadalcanal