@@libniabraao813 I don’t intend to discuss the actual number of people in detail, but according to the official view of the United States, the total number of deaths in the Battle of Bulge ranges from 8,807 to 19,276, while the total number of deaths in the Okinawa War is 20,195.
@@Kamo_shika US fatalities for Okinawa were around 12,500; over one-third of which were sustained by the Navy at sea. US losses for the Ardennes are trickier to nail down because the War Department combines losses for the Ardennes counteroffensive with losses sustained by the US 1st, 3rd, and 7th Armies on the western front in the period between 16 December 1944 - 25 January 1945, in what they refer to as the "Ardennes-Alsace campaign". 8,807 KIA is a closer representation of losses in the actual Ardennes area, though the actual number is probably a few thousand higher since there were over 20,000 MIA during the battle (most of which were POWs) that wouldn't have been properly sorted out until after the war. If I had to guess, the total American KIA for the Bulge is around 10,000 with 12,000 being the ceiling, and that includes AAF losses.
Captured, injured, and missing count as casualties as well. Of course there were very few captured, but casualties don’t mean killed. Killed means killed.
I'd fear fighting against the Japanese since they battled to the death. Almost all battles, that were won by the US, the casualty rate for Japanese troops were near total every time.
On a psychological level definitely, but your odds of survival were probably better than fighting a proficient enemy like the Germans who usually inflicted heavier casualties on the attacker in operations.
@@justacat2Germany was on the same level technologically, they weren't more advanced than the allies and Japan wasn't far behind, it's more about the fact the japanese wouldn't surrender until being wiped out
I am Japanese. I'm from Tokyo, but my mother is from Okinawa. My grandfather and great-grandfather lived in the South at the time. (My great-grandfather was a Japanese soldier.) My grandfather said that the American Navy and Air Force attacks were so intense that it was like a meteor shower falling on Okinawa. The ground fighting was also very intense, and my great-grandfather and my grandfather were fleeing from the American forces, but the attacks were so intense that my great-grandfather hid him in a small hole in the ground. When the attack stopped, my grandfather came out of the hole and looked around, and there he saw the corpse of his great-grandfather.
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This was a hard-won victory, for a relatively small island closest to the Japanese Home Islands, and the one that convinced the West to start nuking Japan.
Interesting to notice at the same time as this battle, VE day occurred in Europe. When the battle began, the axis still controlled a large part of europe, but by the time it ended the war in europe had been over for a month already.
The Japanese simply refused to give up. They were probably scared to death about the consequences of their actions and what the us would retribute upon them and their leaders. That's why so many of them committed suicide just like their soldiers, who literally committed suicide by not surrendering.
@@frank-ko6deThat and they were perfectly willing to abuse civilians, use them as meat shields, injure them and leave mines and grenades with them to injure US personnel who tried to assist, basically any devious tactic you can imagine to fight the US since they hated the Marines and thought of the local Okinawans as inferior humans.
When I was stationed in Okinawa in the 80s, I had the opportunity to talk to and interact with a lot of Okinawans, and with one exception in the whole year I was there, they treated me very kindly. I was even invited to a couple of their homes. The one unfriendly incident was some middle aged guy yelling at me. I never found out what he said. But I never once had someone treat me unkindly. Well, that guy of course was the exception. 😂 Same with mainland Japan too. I was always treated kindly there too. And this was only 40 years after the war.
Of course it's America's fault that the Japanese sent women, children and the elderly to all die an "honourable death". Of course if 一億玉砕 was realised, that would also surely be America's fault and not Japan's fault...
A rare battlefield where the commander-in-chief, Lieutenant General Buckner, was killed before the Japanese Lieutenant General Ushijima due to the overwhelming difference in military strength.
The Island hopping the Americans were doing in that war was nothing short of amazing and brutal at the same time. I wouldn't have wanted to be anywhere in WW2 but especially not Stalingrad nor the Pacific
While I do not in any way want to take away from the Herculean efforts and tremendous sacrifices that had to be made to win the war... I've yet to see a convincing, and realistic, scenario where the axis powers actually win that doesn't involve the allies just deciding to give up or sue for peace prematurely. As long as the US, UK, and USSR all decided to keep fighting, there was no hope of victory for the axis in the long run simply due to insurmountable resource and production gaps. Germany can make all the advanced military tech they want, it doesn't matter when the allies can produce something almost as good at 10 times or more the rate. Japan's soldiers can be as fanatical and fearless as the want, it doesn't matter when they can't afford to replace the losses in equipment or manpower, and the allies can.
The allies had an advantage they lost in Africa the Germans got tricked and the took Italy very fast they lost to the Soviet Union because of the winter and d-day split the German military in 3 or 4 places Germany had no way of winning
@@Michael-uc2pnthe only things that could have allowed the axis to win is if 1.america wasn't bankrolling the Soviets through lend lease. 2.japan didn't try and fight America.
Let us not forget the 140,000 Okinawan’s who were killed in this battle which at the time was 1/4 of the population. The battle may have been horrible for both militaries but it definitely shows that an invasion of the mainland would’ve been absolutely most devastating to the civilians caught in the crossfire.
Wow, The japanese literally did fight to the last man on that island. 116,000 troops 110,000 casualties (includes injured).... they did not give up easy.
It took that many days to take the control of an island while having the superiority in the air and on Sea? Something is off. Either Americans stumbled a lot or the map is misleading and it was actually fighting everywhere on the streets!
The island is made up of a strong defense line, with underground spaces of stone mountains like ant nests and graveyards that have been converted into fortresses.
The decided against doing an Iwo Jima style beach defense. Instead they chose to lure the Americans inland because the hills and ridges were a better defense.
@@yavuzselimguler3945except they aren't. The us had a massive advantage in everything, and inflicted more casualties on the japanese in every battle except Iwo jima
@@yavuzselimguler3945you just hate American so much i can see it,how can us make more casualties when they got air support and artilery support from battleship in coast?🤣
@@yavuzselimguler3945the attacking side is more likely to suffer higher losses but Japanese weapons weren’t as good as American like their navy air-force etc
At the time, the battle of Okinawa wasn't an invasion of Japan, but a liberation of a nation. The Okinawans were second-class citizens under Japanese rule for many decades. Many were hoping for independence afterward, but after they became equal citizens of post-war Japan, and ironically, the post-war Okinawans became much more assimilated into the larger Japanese society.
