Table of Data Points

On the ninth day of operation Market Garden, the British 1st Airborne division starts it's withdraw back across the Rhine. Of approximately 10,600 men who fought north of the Rhine, 1,485 had died and 6,414 were taken prisoner.

322nd battalion repeatedly attacked the last 750 Japanese defenders who drove them back. Eventually, hunger, thirst, and American shellfire and bombing took their toll and US troops penetrated Japanese defences.

The allied invasion of southern France was initiated by an amphibious assault by elements of the U.S. Seventh Army, with a follow-up force made up primarily of the French First Army.

As with many of the Pacific battles most of the Japanese defenders refused to surrender. More than 18,040 Japanese troops are killed, 485 surrender.

The Imperial Japanese Navy lose 3 carriers and over 600 aircraft in the largest carrier battle in history. The IJN were unable to replace their losses and at Leyte Gulf, a few months later, their carriers were used solely as a decoy.