ABOUT 1,000,000 MEN
COST TO HITLER OF ALLIED INVASION (Rec. 10.10 a.m.) London, Sept. 26. It is now fairly certain that the Allied invasion of France and the Low Countries has so far cost Hitler about 1,000,000 men, writes a correspondent at SHAEF. Official prisoner of war figures for all Allied armies in the west place the current total at 544,695. An unofficial estimate of Nazi troops killed is 100,000 and about 200.000 have been seriously wounded. To these figures must be added comparatively large forces of garrison personnel manning the remaining ports on the Atlantic seaboard and the Channel coast who are completely cut off and stand little change of evacuation to the Reich. Details of prisoner cf war fiflures issued at SHAEF are: The British Second Army to 16th September took 73,297, and the Canadian First Army 52.971. making the total for the Twenty-first <British) Army Group 126,268. The First United States Army to 23rd September took 183,827. and the Third Arm '•an Army 92,600, making the total the Tw'.-ity-first (United State 1 •iv Group 276,427. General
Patch’s Sixth Army Group (American ’ and French) took 72,000 to 13th September—4l,ooo were taken by the French. The United States Ninth Army ’to 22nd September took 70,000, this ’ figure including 19,000 who recently ! surrendered near Loire and 36,389 at Brest
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 79, 27 September 1944, Page 5
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