Which battlegroup of WW1 or WW2 fought literally to the last man?

Answer 1

The armoured cruisers HMS Good Hope, HMS Monmouth, HMS Defence and HMS Black Prince, and the SMS Scharnhorst all went down with their entire crews in the course of WWI.
Good Hope and Monmouth at the Battle of the Coronel, November 1914
Scharnhorst at the Battle of the Falkland Islands, December 1914
Defence and Black Prince at Jutland, May 1916.

Answer 2

I am not sure that you mean to use the term battlegroup. On October 23, 1944 in the Leyete Gulf the bulk of the Japanese fleet, including the Yamato, attacked from the north against the invasion force. The only combatant ships available were a handful of tin cans. Though a couple of ships survived the encounter any expert would have said their counterattack was suicide. Nonetheless, the tin cans went in with guns blazing and torpedoes running hot to buy time for the escort carriers to flee. If you're not familiar with naval vessels; the Yamato displaced 80,000 tons and the Samuel Roberts displaced 3,800 tons. The Yamato fired a 3,100 lb projectile and the Roberts a 65 lb projectile.

Check out the exploits of the Squadron 633 of the RAF.

It is a little earlier but how about Custer's force?

Answer 3

The only land army to use the term "battlegroup" was the German Wehrmacht "kampfgruppe" of the Second World War.

A Royal Navy battlegroup was destroyed by a German battlegroup at Coronel in the First World War.

Answer 4

That would be Soviet Army's defences of Moscow, Leningrad and Stalingrad. Those seiges all lasting well over a year and included civilian occupants of those cities. Some claims is Moscow may have lost 3 million people. Stalingrad and Leningrad each lost well over 1 million. The Sovierts eventually regrouped after the harshest winter of record. New Soviet T-34 tanks and katusha rockets decimated the German Army. Over the following 5 months, the Soviet Armies arrived in two groups, surrounding Berlin with more than 16,000 artillery pieces and within a couple hundred yards of the Fuhrer's last refuge.

Americans didn't fight last man strategy. We were more intelligent than that In World Wars as well as other conflicts, American casualties are always wxtremely light. Our stragety not to attack unless we have superior weapons and 3 to 1 man odds. On defence, if overwhelmed, with draw, regroup and return to the field of battle when things become favorable.In WWI, the American Army was already experienced in trench warfare from the Civil War. American Generals followed tactics of Such as Lee, Grant, and Sherman. Meanwhile Europen armies were still using the Napoleon - Welling battle formation tactics. And American units particularily effective because of commanders deciding their own initiatives and tactics at the front.

Answer 5

Wake Island after Pearl Harbor

Answer 6

11 SS Nordland from Germany against the forces from the USSR. We fought them house by house until we had Berlin.

Our 1077th Anti Air Craft Regiment turned their AA guns ground ward and fought the Germans tanks at Stalingrad until every last battery was smashed under the onslaught.
A side note was the 1077th was all female volunteers. Who fought just as hard and bravely as any man!

Answer 7

The 9,000 strong SS regiment "Totenkopffe Division" surrendered to the Americans at just 45 men
Although you could include HMS Indefatigable and HMS Hood which had only 3 survivers each after blowing up,,Indefatigable went down at Jutland and Hood in the Denmark Straight against Bismark

Answer 8

Many of the units in the trenches were sent to the slaughter. The Anzacs were notably sacrificed in the Dardanelles in WW1.
It is hard to single out one group and say their losses were any larger or smaller than others, they were all great.
This, I'm sure can be applied to both sides.

Answer 9

The German 15th Panzer division attacking Americans in Tynisia just before the German surrender,its remaining 20 tanks against two tank divisions!!!

Answer 10

WW1 I believe it was the Germans.

WW2 was definately the notorious Japanese. My grandfather fought against them in Burma during the war. His men fought a brutal and protracted battle.