GERMAN CASUALTIES
ESTIMATE OF 750,000
RUGBY, September 16. j German casualties in the second Battle of France are estimated to be 700,000 men killed, wounded and prisoners. The .figure of mrn Si?n erS £l° ne *? a PProaching half a million The prisoners taken in the ?£ U% of £ ranc? total 82>00°. of which the French took 49,500. . Up-to-date British and Canadian estimates are not yet to hand, but the following figures are issued for the Americans: The United States First Army, to September 11, took 169 700 prisoners, and the United States Third Army about 76,000, a total of 245 700 Field-Marshal Montgomery's Twenty- £ rst 4r?7 Grou P has taken more than 72,000 prisoners.—B.O W
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 68, 18 September 1944, Page 5
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