Talk:World War II casualties/Archives/2016/May

Undercounter Japanese civilian casualties

It is currently listed at 550 000 IIRC though 4 independent events,with wikipedia statistics used, amount to at least 400 000 civilians dead.

Operation Meetinghouse - multiply sourced civilian dead number of 100 000, higher evaluations are common but stay in the range except a single 200k one Battle of Okinawa - 100 000 civilian, a higher number is estimated by the US army (125k-150k= Hiroshima Bombing - 120 000 civilian Nagasaki Bombing - 80 000 civilian

Used the higher ranges for the atomic bombings due to increased rate of death from radiation post hoc (though estimates are in the low thousands) and the destruction of the infastructure causing further casulaties later on in the year.

Though this may have been the 4 single largest instances of civilian death in Japan, the most powerful of them (Meetinghouse) was just one of many firebombing raids.

- Nodyi, 2/5/2016 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 31.147.119.245 (talk) 01:28, 2 May 2016 (UTC)

You list no sources for your figures. The footnotes in this article for Japan detail civilian losses with reliable sources. Please read Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources--Woogie10w (talk) 01:37, 2 May 2016 (UTC)

References

My knowledge is limited, but the same texts are refenced many times, such reference shoud be named and used.Xx236 (talk) 10:29, 13 May 2016 (UTC)

Why is Russia not included in the "colored flags table"? Germany certainly is.

67.188.92.176 (talk) 00:43, 21 May 2016 (UTC) RobinLRandall@gmail.com 5-20-2016

the USSR flag is there, not Russia--Woogie10w (talk) 01:04, 21 May 2016 (UTC)

Image

I replaced the top most image, as it appears to depict bodies of dead soldiers used as barricades, which I don't think is appropriate. K.e.coffman (talk) 20:36, 21 May 2016 (UTC)

French Legion of Volunteers against Bolshevism

Something I notice not mentioned in the footnotes for French casualties: are total casualties known for French who served in the Nazi German forces, notably the Legion of Volunteers against Bolshevism (LVF)? So far all I have seen, in the article on the latter (cited source Littlejohn, David (1987), Foreign Legions of the Third Reich Vol. 1 Norway, Denmark, France, Bender Publishing, p.149, ISBN 978-0912138176) is that the LVF battalion of the Wehrmacht (2,271 strong) lost half its strength in action or through frostbite in the Battle for Moscow but losses through further actions in the war are not mentioned in the article. They were serving in the German forces but they did not renounce their nationality, at least nominally of the Vichy state.Cloptonson (talk) 09:59, 31 May 2016 (UTC)

What you are telling us is true, but is it relevant here? There is a laundry list of other "legions" in German service. Include them all?--Woogie10w (talk) 10:33, 31 May 2016 (UTC)