• British battles of Neuve Chapelle, Aubers Ridge, Festubert and Loos. • Loos involved the first of Kitchener’s New Army divisions. • Scottish losses were so dreadful that no part of Scotland was unaffected. The Black Watch (raised in Tayside) had massive casualties; the 9th lost 680 officers and men in the first hours of the fighting. Of 950 men of the 6th Cameronians who went into battle, 700 were
Lastly, the program’s closure cost 25, 000 people their jobs. Consequently the sudden cancellation of the Avro Arrow program by Diefenbaker’s government was not beneficial to Canada. The CF-105 Arrow was by far the most sophisticated aircraft of its time and would have beyond a doubt set the benchmark for combat planes to come. Despite the fact that the first Arrow was flown in 1957, it was so advanced that its performance was only outdone by the Russian MiG 26 years later in 1983. The Hughes Falcon weapons system was to be utilized by the Avro Arrow.
From 1944 to 1945, there were about 7,600 Canadian servicemen who died while fighting in Holland. Both the Americans and the British attempted to liberate the Netherlands and ended up failing, therefore it was handed over to the Canadian troops. This was indeed one of Canada’s greatest contributions to WWII. Canadian soldiers fought many harsh battles against the Germans and were very successful. During this time the Dutch people were under five years of Nazi control and with as little as 320 calories daily, the Dutch barely avoided starving.
The war involved so many men, positioned on a small piece of land. The battle was between the German and French armies and lasted from February 21st, 1916 to December 19th, 1916 and caused over an estimated 700,000 casualties. Throughout the battle countless number of soldiers kept journals and or sent letters back home telling what it is like during the war. The physical conditions of the soldiers played a big part in the battle
Trench Warfare World War 1 is most notably known for the vicious fighting that lead to mass death all over Europe. This bloody war consumed approximately eight million soldiers. This does not include the number of wounded soldiers or the countless number of civilians that lost their lives. Trench Warfare had a lot to do with the huge number of casualties that accorded during World War 1. All Quite on the Western Front helps to give a real insight to what a battle was like during WW1.
Joe Marinaccio Mrs. McCarthy English 10 21 March, 2015 The Flag Raising at Iwo Jima World War II was one of the greatest and bloodiest wars in world history. When characterizing it, one normally thinks of Hitler’s domination and the Nazis. Although, that was a major part of the war, the war on the Pacific was as significant, yet unrecognized to the public today. The Great Depression was in full effect in the US when World War II began, giving many unemployed men a job in the army. This resulted in a surge of patriotism and national pride.
There is no official casualty figure for D-Day but it is estimated that more than 425,000 allied and German troops were killed, wounded, or went missing during the battle (Allies prepare for D-Day, 2011). The Battle of the Bulge The Battle of the Bulge was the largest land battle of World War II. “More than a million men participated in this battle including some 600,000 Germans, 500,000 Americans, and 55,000 British” (Lopez, 2009). The Battle of the Bulge was one of the worst battles in terms of losses of American Forces in World War II. At the end of the battle the casualties were highest out of the entire war.
Source B9 is clear in doing this, Josh Brooman comes to the conclusion that Dunkirk was ‘a great defeat’ by focussing on the ’70,000’ men that were killed wounded or taken prisoner, the abandonment of ‘150,000’ French allies and the number of rifles and vehicles left behind. Source B9 also tells us that behind closed doors even Winston Churchill called Dunkirk ‘the greatest military defeat for many centuries’. As Prime Minister, Winston Churchill knew this information would have damaged the morale of the British people, which he didn’t want to do during a war. Although Source B9 fails to tell us how may soldiers were successfully evacuated from Dunkirk, and could be seen as one-sided, I don’t think this takes away from the reliability as it was written by a school history textbook
So one has to ask was it worth it? Almost near years since we entered Iraq we are leaving with little results and a bill that doubles our debt and could continue to hold down our economy. There were over 4,400 lives lost, and that is just on the Americans side. We have not even began to scratch the surface of the effects on the native Iraqis and how many thousands of civilians have been killed and the millions that have been displaced by our war efforts. To go along with the 4,400 Americans that wont be coming home to their families, there were over 32,000 Americans wounded in this war.
Many Indians were recruited in the army, 1.200.000 soldiers, and as a result the effects of the war accelerated India’s self-independence for 50 years as stated by Madan Mohan Malaviya. Source 15 suggests that during the war Indians had to fight in ‘conditions of appalling hardship’ reminding us the battle of Ypres in the Western Front, where Indians had heavy losses and as a result of their low morale and the cold winters they were transferred to the Middle East. This suggests that after the war Indians would like a reward for their services to the British Empire and for what they passed through; but also suggest that they would demand for a fairer treatment and more rights as members of the British Empire. Furthermore we can see that when the Turks joined the War, the Muslim Indians had to fight against their own religion, and in the eyes of Muslims the British were going at war against a Muslim Power. This suggests that the Muslims within India would like the war to end as soon as possible, and so they immediately began to ask for independence from the British Empire.