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Allied Armies Strength and Casualties, Europe (1944-45)

U.S. Army Strength
	by Location		by Type
	Continent	U.K.	Ground	Air	Service	Other	Total Strength
1944
July	790,519	980,095	749.476	365,429	355,805	299,904	1,770,614
August	1,017,817	886,892	838,108	377,325	374,054	315,222	1,904,709
September	1,353,079	700,338	928,042	429,671	402,192	293,512	2,053,417
October	1,401,165	802,418	1,095,682	426,266	419,156	262,479	2,203,583
November	1,921,481	667,502	1,337,981	435,692	506,889	308,421	2,588,983
December	2,048,421	651,046	1,410,514	438,428	522,142	328,383	2,699,467

1945
January	2,184,184	644,855	1,484,330	432,304	534,700	377,705	2,829,039
February	2,329,042	605,882	1,585,242	429,822	551,466	368,394	2,934,924
March	2,539,334	490,245	1,644,986	438,051	565,221	381,321	3,029,579
April	2,623,086	442,419	1,671,008	447,482	572,478	374,537	3,065,505
May	2,639,377	382,106	1,703,613	442,155	580,497	295,218	3,021,483
June	2,488,406	323,414	1,682,593	368,064	568,876	192,287	2,811,820

U.S. Army Casualties
		Wounded		Captured		Missing
	Killed in Action	Returned	Died	Returned	Died	Returned	Died	Total Killed	Total Casualties
1944	68,385	217,448	27,633	40,727	692	8,578	826	97,536	338,289
June	9,379	24,210	1,318	3,384	39	902	135	10,871	30,367
July	10,891	34,771	18,876	3,041	27	763	55	29,849	51,424
August	9,111	27,733	1,558	2,782	21	1,264	66	10,756	42,535
September	8,830	25,934	1,495	4,743	37	1,011	133	10,495	42,183
October	6,119	20,436	983	3,203	25	760	91	7,218	31,617
November	11,260	43,957	1,569	4,235	48	1,231	137	13,014	62,437
December	12,795	40,407	1,834	19,339	495	2,647	209	15,333	77,726

1945	36,427	143,213	5,379	15,919	163	3,478	249	42,218	204,818
January	10,391	47,849	1,566	8,215	129	865	104	12,190	69,119
February	7,202	28,628	1,010	1,928	17	592	37	8,266	39,414
March	10,483	36,821	1,512	3,274	10	1,053	56	12,061	53,209
April	7,994	28,469	1,224	2,425	4	891	51	9,273	41,048
May	357	1,446	67	77	3	77	1	428	2,028

TOTAL	104,812	360,661	33,012	56,646	855	12,056	1,075	139,754	543,107

British/Canadian Army Strength
	British	Canadian	Total
31.10.44	771,267	124,645	895,912
8.11.44	807,028	118,636	925,664
31.5.45	907,553	188,191	1,095,744
16.6.45	890,285	182,432	1,072,717

21st Army Group Casualties (6.6.44 - 8.5.45)
	Killed	Wounded	Missing	Total
21st Army Group	41,044	131,386	18,789	191,219
British	-	-	-	141,291
Canadian	-	-	-	43,249
Polish	-	-	-	5,598
Czech	-	-	-	590
Belgian	-	-	-	364
Dutch	-	-	-	127

French Army Casualties
	Killed	Wounded	Captured	Missing	Total
Total	24,209	80,355	6,081	5,135	115,600
North Africa, 1942-43	5,187	7,342	2,088	3,406	18,023
Italy, 1943-45	6,255	23,500	117	879	30,751
Northern Europe, 1944-45	12,587	49,513	3,876	850	66,826

Notes:

(1) Other deaths and casualties includes captured or interned, and missing in action.

(2) See notes from source for additional descriptive information.

Source: Adapted from Pogue, F.C. The Supreme Command (Link).

Last modified: 10 December 2022