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Battle Strength and Loss Estimates
256 sourced numbers behind the major battles: every estimate of an army's strength or losses, who made it (an ancient writer, an official return or a modern historian) and where it is published. Ancient figures, such as Herodotus's five million for Xerxes's army, sit beside modern estimates so you can see how much they differ.
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| ID | Battle | Wikidata ID | Side | Side order | Measure | Low | High | Unit | Counts | Estimated by | Citation | Url | Part | Note |
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| 247 | Battle of Stalingrad | Q38789 | Soviet Union | B | Killed | 674990 | 674990 | people | Sergei Pereslegin (modern) | Wikipedia, "Battle of Stalingrad" (infobox), citing Pereslegin and Panin, Stalingrad: The Price of Victory (2005), p. 118 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Stalingrad | killed, missing or captured | ||
| 248 | Battle of Stalingrad | Q38789 | Soviet Union | B | Wounded | 650878 | 650878 | people | G. F. Krivosheev | Wikipedia, "Battle of Stalingrad" (infobox), citing G. F. Krivosheev et al., Losses of the Armed Forces of the USSR (Voenizdat, 1993), pp. 178-182, 369-370 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Stalingrad | wounded or sick | ||
| 249 | Battle of Stalingrad | Q38789 | Soviet Union | B | Wounded | 672224 | 672224 | people | Sergei Pereslegin | Wikipedia, "Battle of Stalingrad" (infobox), citing Pereslegin and Panin (2005), p. 118 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Stalingrad | wounded or sick | ||
| 250 | Battle of Stalingrad | Q38789 | Soviet Union | B | Total losses | 1129619 | 1129619 | people | G. F. Krivosheev | Wikipedia, "Battle of Stalingrad" (infobox), citing G. F. Krivosheev et al., Losses of the Armed Forces of the USSR (Voenizdat, 1993), pp. 178-182, 369-370 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Stalingrad | |||
| 251 | Battle of Stalingrad | Q38789 | Soviet Union | B | Total losses | 1347214 | 1347214 | people | Sergei Pereslegin | Wikipedia, "Battle of Stalingrad" (infobox), citing Pereslegin and Panin (2005), p. 118 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Stalingrad | |||
| 252 | Battle of Midway | Q173034 | United States | A | Strength | 16 | 16 | ships and aircraft | present | Clay Blair (modern) | Wikipedia, "Battle of Midway" (infobox), citing Blair, Silent Victory (1975), p. 240 map | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Midway | submarines | |
| 253 | Battle of Midway | Q173034 | United States | A | Killed | 307 | 307 | people | U.S. Office of Naval Intelligence narrative; National WWII Museum | Wikipedia, "Battle of Midway" (infobox), citing ONI, The Battle of Midway (1943); National WWII Museum | http://ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/USN-CN-Midway/USN-CN-Midway-13.html | about 307, including 3 killed as prisoners | ||
| 254 | Battle of Midway | Q173034 | Japan | B | Strength | 248 | 248 | ships and aircraft | present | Parshall and Tully (modern) | Wikipedia, "Battle of Midway" (infobox), citing Jonathan Parshall and Anthony Tully, Shattered Sword (2005), pp. 90-91 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Midway | carrier aircraft of the 1st Carrier Striking Force (4 fleet carriers) | |
| 255 | Battle of Midway | Q173034 | Japan | B | Killed | 3057 | 3057 | people | Parshall and Tully (modern) | Wikipedia, "Battle of Midway" (infobox), citing Jonathan Parshall and Anthony Tully, Shattered Sword (2005), pp. 114, 365, 377-380, 476 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Midway | |||
| 256 | Battle of Midway | Q173034 | Japan | B | Captured | 37 | 37 | people | Naval History and Heritage Command | NHHC, "Battle of Midway: June 4-7, 1942" | https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabetically/b/battle-of-midway-4-7-june-1942.html |
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