SINCE D DAY

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 54, 1 September 1944, Page 5

SINCE D DAY

ENEMY TOLL IN FIGURES

OVER 400,000 CASUALTIES Rec. noon. RUGBY, August 31. A factual report submitted by the Supreme Commander, General Eisenhower, to the combined Chiefs of Staff, covering the operations in northern France between D Day and August 25, states that the equivalent of five panzer divisions have been destroyed and a further six severely mauled, including the Panzer Grenadier Division. Equivalent of 20 infantry divisions have been eliminated and a 'further twelve have been very badly cut up and have suffered losses. Included in this total of infantry divisions are three of the energy's crack parachute divisions. i ft addition, one parachute division and two infantry divisions fraye no hope of escape from fortress Rpr-ts in the Brittany Peninsula in whiqh they ar-e marooned. One in-\ (fantry division is isolated in the Chan-' | nel Islands. i The total of the enemy's casualties amounts to over 400,000 killed, wounded, and prisoners "of war* of which over 200,000 are prisoners, 135,00Qpf whom have,been captiiired since* July i *sr, ■ ■ ■ Thirteen hundred enemy tanks and Over 20,000 motor vehicles have been captured or destroyed. About 500 assault guns and 1500 field and heavy artillery guns have been captured or destroyed. , In addition, the enemy has suffered very heavy losses in coast artillery and equipment. • . The German Seventh Army and the newly,formed Fifth Panzer Army have been decisively defeated. ' Three fieldmarshals and one army commander have either been dismissed or incapacitated by wounds. Qhe army commander, three corps commanders, fifteen divisional commanders, and one fortress commander haye been either killed or captured. A total of 2378 German aircraft have been destroyed in the air and 97n h2 n k6 ground> and in addition c*L bt e * pro^bly destroyed and IU2B damaged m the air. AiJI% the en- em^ has been enable to interfere seriously with the invasion forces, and of the- enemy naval forces some 300 of all classes have been sunk or heavily damaged by Allied action. In addition, a number of ™nm£ mF eh'mt ships have been sunk and the Germans themselves have been forced to scuttle i n their harbours hntf m^rs^ a" types of shipping both naval and mercantile.—B OIV