Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since 1941, the U-boat fleet had sunk no less than 440 U.S. ships, of 2,740,000 gross tons; mines, surface ships, aircraft and miscellaneous enemy action boosted the toll to 538 ships (3,310,000 gross tons or almost 5,000,000 deadweight tons). U.S. merchant seamen killed or missing totaled 5,579. To the British Empire, the cost was far greater: 2,570 ships, of 11,380,000 gross tons; 30,000 mariners dead or missing. For all the Allies and the few neutrals, the monstrous total stood: 4,770 ships, 21,140,000 gross tons:-equal...
...even these two able strategists could know precisely what sort of campaign they must prepare for. Japan supposedly has 1,750,000 men under arms, ready to defend the homeland. Would they fight to the same bitter end as the 85,000 on Okinawa? Would they exact the same toll, of one U.S. soldier killed for every ten Japanese? Must the U.S. prepare for at least 175,000 killed-twice as many as in the European Theater of Operations? Would the enemy succeed in mobilizing into the People's Volunteer Corps 100,000,000 automatons for suicidal defense...
...landed at Oran are left. Casualties have taken a heavy toll. Veterans have been pulled out to form cadres in other outfits. Said one doughfoot: "There have been three ist Divisions so far-one that fought in Africa and Sicily and two more since we landed in France...
...know that if one child in the world is allowed to stay hungry, my children rise empty from our bountiful table. And sooner or later the bell will toll for them...
...Costs. And the toll in lives was mounting. The Tenth Army has lost 2,337 killed, 11,432 wounded and 514 missing. The fleet was last reported to have lost 1,131 killed, 2,816 wounded and 1,604 missing. Against these figures are known Japanese casualties of 33,462 dead and 700 prisoners...