Originally posted by tbm3fan
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Of the battle dead if you subtract attached non-organic units the number of battle dead drops 1810 dead and 6963 wounded/injured in action. here is where Cooper is proven to be a windbag and nothing more. The division lost 633 medium tanks (total write off) and the division repaired 1305 medium tanks classified as temporary losses from combat. The division lost more medium tanks than it did dead... where is the death trap? many perhaps most of the bead and wounded are not even tankers but armored infantrymen and other ranks. of those who are tankers, 1/3 of the tanks lost and then repaired an additional 395 units were light tanks. You can't even make the case that he meant wounded worse than death. of the wounded and injured inaction, 4408 are conformed return to duty from units organic to the divisions excluding the attached units.
1810 dead, 2285 permanently disabled or otherwise unfit to return to duty from wounds and injuries.
The divisions lost 1832 vehicles all types permanently lost and a further 6324 vehicles lost in combat but repaired and returned to service. Do the math, even if not a single rifleman was killed and all the dead were in a vehicle the division didn't suffer as many dead as it did total vehicle write offs from combat losses.
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