Other units had similar grim statistics.įortunately for modern-day researchers, the Army kept meticulous combat diaries and journals to record their battlefield activities for a given period of time.
For example, by the end of January, 1945, the 47 th Infantry Regiment (which fought in France and Germany) had lost well over 100% of their strength to battle casualties, where men were either killed, wounded, missing, or taken as prisoner of war. The casualties suffered by a typical American infantry regiment serving in World War II were horrendous.
