In Marlborough, however, Correlli Barnett puts the total casualty figure as high as 30, 000 – 15, 000 dead and wounded with an additional 15, 000 taken captive.

In the United States, it was a controversial battle because of the island's questionable strategic value and the high casualty rate, which was the highest for U. S. military personnel of any battle in the Pacific War.

The casualty rate among officers is particularly high at the front.

Conditions of work were very poor, with a high casualty rate from rock falls.

Major engagements between France and Austria, the main participants, unfolded over much of Central Europe from April to July, with very high casualty rates.

This was largely due to the high casualty rate of both Sheridans and their crews as mines and rocket-propelled grenades ( RPGs ) that would only damage an M48 Patton tank, would destroy the Sheridan and kill or wound most, if not all, of its crew.

The apparent half-heartedness of the ensuing siege, called off by Władysław on 19 September, has been ascribed variously to the impregnability of the fortifications, to high casualty figures among the Lithuanians, and to Władysław's unwillingness to risk further casualties ; but a lack of sources precludes a definitive explanation.

For example, in Los Angeles, California, the Self Help Graphics & Art Mexican-American cultural center presents an annual Day of the Dead celebration that includes both traditional and political elements, such as altars to honor the victims of the Iraq War highlighting the high casualty rate among Latino soldiers.

The German paratroopers had such a high casualty rate that Hitler forbade any further large-scale airborne attacks.

The survivors of the first wave were unable to provide effective covering fire, and in places the fresh landing troops suffered casualty rates as high as those of the first wave.

The coming attack was common knowledge in the unit, and casualty rates were expected to be very high, as the prolonged combat in the area had been unusually grueling.

In March 1945, the Nazi regime ordered its press to publish a falsified casualty figure of 200, 000 for the Dresden raids, and death toll estimates as high as 500, 000 have been given.

They did, however, argue Bacque's casualty figures are far too high, and that policy was set by Allied politicians, not by Eisenhower.

During the Six Day and Yom Kippur wars ( conflicts with intensive armored warfare ) these units suffered terribly in operations, with high casualty rates.

These teams were called " Arditi " ( meaning " daring, brave ones "); they were almost always men under 25 in top physical condition and, possibly at first, bachelors ( due to the fear of very high casualty rates ).

The newly invented machine gun and repeating rifle redefined firepower on the battlefield and, in part, explains the high casualty rates of the American Civil War.

For a variety of reasons, Serling was transferred to the 511th's demolition platoon ( nicknamed " The Death Squad " for its high casualty rate ).

Yet the cost was high: the allied casualty figures were approximately double that of the enemy ( sources vary ), leading Marlborough to admit – " The French have defended themselves better in this action than in any battle I've seen.

For example, during the confusion and high casualty rates of both the Normandy landings and the Battle of the Bulge, in order to bolster the strength of a depleted infantry regiment, companies and even battalions were moved around as necessary.

Resulting in early deaths and high casualty rates in the extended royal family.

Although the details have not been precisely established, casualty figures were high for both sides: the French amounting to at least 7, 000 killed and wounded ; the Allies are estimated as 10, 000 to 12, 000.

This unusually high casualty rate resulted from Nordmann having been positioned in a perilous location and having been maintained there for too long, with little purpose.

The unusually high casualty rate was due mainly to an unprecedented concentration of artillery, on a flat battlefield, where the deadly roundshot-each army fired at least 90, 000 during the two days of battle-was most effective.

This led to the army offering low pay, often rotten food, hard work, cold, heat, poor clothing and shelter, harsh discipline, and a high chance of becoming a casualty.

The figures range as high as 15 million families.

Its figures are a half inch high and very easy to read, even into tenth gallons.

My eyes traveled over the bare walls and up to the one partially open window high above the little figures and back to the boys.

Detrimental effects on short term memory, which affect the way one figures and calculates ( although this also may be purely subjective ), may also be observed on high enough dosages.

" The original sequence and its 1959 sequel, The Return of the Shmoo, have been collected in print many times since, most recently in 2011, always to high sales figures.

The relatively high quality of the country's statistics means that these figures are likely to be quite accurate.

The economy really took off between 2003 and 2008 and growth figures quickly shot up, fluctuating between figures as high as 6. 6 % ( 2004 ) and 5. 0 % ( 2003 ).

Internal Government of Chile figures show that even when factoring out inflation and the recent high price of copper, bilateral trade between the U. S. and Chile has grown over 60 % since then.

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high in Gothic niches, and in the upper panels a double range of niches with figures about.

Until high school, of which he attended Saint Xavier High School in Louisville, Kentucky his featured characters were a large cast of stick figures featured in comedy-adventures like the Barks comics and old movies Don enjoyed most.

The right wing of the country and high ranking figures in the army began to plan a coup, and when Falangist politician José Calvo-Sotelo was shot by Republican police, they used it as a signal to act.

He also claimed very high survival rates for the camps at Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen, even as these sites were liberated and it became obvious that his figures were false.

However, these figures are generally dismissed as too high by modern scholars ( see below ).

A little later there are a number of figures of large-eyed priests and worshippers, mostly in alabaster and up to a foot high, who attended temple cult images of the deity, but very few of these have survived.

They produced very little sculpture in the round, except for colossal guardian figures, often the human-headed lamassu, which are sculpted in high relief on two sides of a rectangular block, with the heads effectively in the round ( and also five legs, so that both views seem complete ).

Government figures indicate that 5, 000 Chinese miners die in accidents each year, while other reports have suggested a figure as high as 20, 000.

Inflation has been reduced from a high of 33, 603 % during the early years of the Sandinista period to more normal levels, averaging an annual rate of 9. 5 % over the 2000-2010 decade ( based on World Bank figures ).

* 1957 – The Apalachin Meeting outside Binghamton, New York is raided by law enforcement, and many high level Mafia figures are arrested.

In recent years, there have been some high profile allegations of senior IRA figures having been British informers.

In the New Kingdom, when temples owned great estates, the high priests of the most important cult — that of Amun at Karnak — were important political figures.

Technical measurements show that similarly low flutter ( 0. 025 % WRMS ) and rumble (- 78dB weighed ) figures are possible for high quality turntables, be they belt drive or direct drive.

Such low figures yield both elements ' high reactivity and the formation of the very stable Ra < sup > 2 +</ sup > ion and similar Ba < sup > 2 +</ sup >.