Which non-Soviet allied commander racked up he highest casualty count among his own men during WWII.?
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That depends on how you define "commander." How high or low do you want
to go? For example, Patton commanded Third Army in Normandy and beyond,
but he was subordinate to Omar Bradley's Twelfth Army Group, who himself
was subordinate to Eisenhower - should Third Army's casualties be
credited to Patton, Bradley, or Eisenhower? How about even the corps
commanders being credited with those casualties - V Corps and XII Corps
probably had as many men as any Soviet field army of the same period
(Soviet divisions and corps being smaller - a Soviet tank corps was
roughly equivalent to an American armored division), and so Patton or
Hodges were probably commanding forces more equivalent to a Soviet
front.
However, my money would be on Chiang Kai-Shek, who held direct operational field command during the Battle of Shanghai (280,000+ casualties) and the Battle of Wuhan (200,000+ casualties). Those nearly 500,000 casualties include almost as many military deaths as the Americans or British lost during the entire war, which should also give an indication of the scale of the fighting in China during the war. It'd be awfully hard for any American or British commander to equal these totals.
However, my money would be on Chiang Kai-Shek, who held direct operational field command during the Battle of Shanghai (280,000+ casualties) and the Battle of Wuhan (200,000+ casualties). Those nearly 500,000 casualties include almost as many military deaths as the Americans or British lost during the entire war, which should also give an indication of the scale of the fighting in China during the war. It'd be awfully hard for any American or British commander to equal these totals.
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