Deadliest Single Day Essay

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On average, 27,000 people perished on each day between the invasion of Poland (September 1, 1939) and the formal surrender of Japan (September 2, 1945)--bombed, shot, stabbed, blown apart, incinerated, gassed, starved, or infected. The Axis losers killed or starved to death about 80 percent of all those who died during the war. The Allied victors largely killed Axis soldiers; the defeated Axis, mostly civilians. More German and Russian soldiers were killed in tanks at Kursk (well over 2,000 tanks lost) than at any other battle of armor in history. The greatest loss of life in history of both civilians and soldiers on a single ship (9,400 fatalities) occurred when a Soviet submarine sank the German troop transport Wilhelm Gustloff in the Baltic Sea in January 1945. The costliest land battle in history took place at Stalingrad; Leningrad was civilization's most lethal siege. The death machinery of the Holocaust made past mass murdering from Attila to Tamerlane to the Aztecs seem like child's play. The deadliest single day in military history occurred in World War II during the March 10, 1945, firebombing of Tokyo, when 100,000 people, perhaps many more, lost their lives. The only atomic bombs ever dropped in war immediately killed more than 100,000 people at Hiroshima and Nagasaki together, most of them civilians, while tens of thousands more ultimately died …show more content…
The Allied leadership made operational changes and technological improvements of surface ships and planes far more rapidly than could the U-boats of the Kriegsmarine. America adapted to repair and produce aircraft carriers and train new crews at a pace inconceivable in Japan. The Allies--including the Soviet Union on most occasions--usually avoided starting theater wars that ended in multiyear infantry quagmires. In contrast, Japan, Germany, and Italy got bogged down respectively in China, the Soviet Union, and North Africa and the

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twenty eight percent of all school shootings combined, including school shootings at public and private schools. This leaves the total amount of students and teachers that have been killed due to college shootings at one hundred and one. To this day, the deadliest mass shooting in American history took place on a college campus. In 2007, college senior Seung- Hui Cho shot and killed thirty-two people on campus prior to taking his own life. The shooting that took place at Virginia Tech seemed to have a…

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