Editing Battle of the Bulge (section)

==Casualties==
[[File:Bastogne JPG01.jpg|thumb|The [[Mardasson Memorial]] near [[Bastogne]], Belgium]]

===Allied===

The Battle of the Bulge was the bloodiest battle for US forces during World War II. A preliminary Army report restricted to the First and Third US Armies listed 75,482 casualties (8,407 killed, 46,170 wounded and 20,905 missing); British XXX Corps losses to 17 January 1945 were recorded as 1,408 (200 killed, 969 wounded, and 239 missing.){{sfn|Pogue|1954|p=396}}{{sfnm|1a1=Cirillo|1y=1995|1p=53|2a1=MacDonald|2y=1998|2p=618|3a1=Miles|3y=2004}} T.N. Dupuy, David Bongard, and Richard Anderson list battle casualties for XXX Corps combat units as 1,462, including 222 killed, 977 wounded, and 263 missing to 16 January 1945 inclusive. Casualties among American divisions (excluding attached elements, corps and army-level combat support, and rear-area personnel) totaled 62,439 from 16 December 1944 to 16 January 1945, inclusive: 6,238 killed, 32,712 wounded, and 23,399 missing.{{sfn|Dupuy|Bongard|Anderson|1994|pp=466–471}} Historian Charles B. MacDonald lists 81,000 American casualties, 41,315 during the defensive phase and 39,672 during the drive to flatten the "Bulge" through 28 January.{{sfn|MacDonald|1993|p=53}}

An official report by the [[United States Department of the Army]] lists 105,102 casualties for the entire "Ardennes-Alsace" campaign, including 19,246 killed, 62,489 wounded, and 26,612 captured or missing; this number incorporates losses not just for the Battle of the Bulge but also all losses suffered during the period by units with the "Ardennes-Alsace" battle credit<ref>{{cite web |title=Ardennes-Alsace |url=https://history.army.mil/brochures/ardennes/aral.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071213063206/http://www.history.army.mil/brochures/ardennes/aral.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=13 December 2007 |website=history.army.mil |access-date=23 April 2023}}</ref> (the entirety of US First, Third and Seventh Armies), which includes losses suffered during the German offensive in Alsace, Operation Nordwind as well as forces engaged in the Saar and [[Lorraine campaign]]s, and the Battle of Hürtgen Forest during that time period.{{sfn|U.S. Army Statistical and Accounting Branch|1953|p=[https://archive.org/details/ArmyBattleCasualtiesAndNonbattleDeathsInWorldWarIiPt3Of4/page/n21/mode/2up 92]}} For the period of December 1944 – January 1945 on the entire western front, Forrest Pogue gives a total of 28,178 US military personnel captured, including shot down airmen.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Pogue |first1=Forrest C. |title=Pogue's War: Diaries of a WWII Combat Historian |date=1 February 2006 |publisher=University Press of Kentucky |isbn=978-0-8131-9160-7 |page=328 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Pogue_s_War/CPYGeN4dxfoC?hl=en&gbpv=0 |access-date=23 April 2023 |language=en}}</ref>

===German===

The German High Command estimated that they lost between 81,834 and 98,024 men on the Western Front between 16 December 1944 and 25 January 1945; the accepted figure was 81,834, of which 12,652 were killed, 38,600 were wounded, and 30,582 were missing.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Percy |first1=Schramm |title=Kriegstagebuch des Oberkommandos der Wehrmacht (Wehrmachtführungsstab) 1940–1945: 1. Januar 1944-22. Mai 1945. Eingeleitet und erläutert von P. E. Schramm. 2 v |date=1961 |publisher=Bernard & Graefe |page=1362 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Kriegstagebuch_des_Oberkommandos_der_Weh/8WzzAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0&bsq=kriegstagebuch%20des%20Oberkommandos%20der%20Wehrmacht%20(Wehrmachtf%C3%BChrungsstab)%201940-1945%20Gef%C3%BChrt%20von%20Helmuth%20Greinert%20und%20Percy%20Ernst%20Schramm%20Band%20IV:%201.%20Januar%201944%20-%2022.%20Mai%201945%20Eingeleitet%20und%20erl%C3%A4utert%20von%20PERCY%20ERNST%20SCHRAMM |access-date=23 April 2023 |language=de}}</ref> Allied estimates on German casualties range from 81,000 to 103,900.{{sfn|Cirillo|1995}} Some authors have estimated German casualties as high as 125,000:{{sfn|Bergström|2014|p=425}}
* T.N. Dupuy's estimates based on fragmentary German records and oral testimony<ref name="DMSi ACSDB report">{{cite web |title=DMSi ACSDB report |url=https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/citations/ADA240088 |website=apps.dtic.mil/ |publisher=DEFENSE TECHNICAL INFORMATION CENTER |access-date=25 July 2023 |language=en}}</ref> suggests casualties among divisions and brigades alone (excluding attached elements, corps and army-level combat support, and rear-area personnel) totaled 74,459 from 16 December 1944 to 16 January 1945, inclusive: 11,048 killed, 34,168 wounded, and 29,243 missing.{{sfn|Dupuy|Bongard|Anderson|1994|pp=474–477}}
* German historian Hermann Jung lists 67,675 casualties from 16 December 1944 to late January 1945 for the three German armies that participated in the offensive.{{sfn|Bergström|2014|p=424}}
* The German casualty reports for the involved armies count 63,222 losses from 10 December 1944 to 31 January 1945.<ref name=Heeresarzt1944>{{cite web |url=http://ww2stats.com/cas_ger_okh_dec44.html |title=Heeresarzt 10-Day Casualty Reports per Army/Army Group, 1944|access-date=29 May 2018 |url-status = dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130525020822/http://ww2stats.com/cas_ger_okh_dec44.html |archive-date=25 May 2013 |df=dmy-all }}</ref><ref name=Heeresarzt1945>{{cite web |url=http://ww2stats.com/cas_ger_okh_dec45.html |title=Heeresarzt 10-Day Casualty Reports per Army/Army Group, 1945|access-date=29 May 2018 |url-status = dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130525020822/http://ww2stats.com/cas_ger_okh_dec45.html |archive-date=25 May 2013 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>
* The [[United States Army Center of Military History]]'s official numbers are 75,000 American casualties and 100,000 German casualties.{{sfn|Stewart|2010|p=157}}

Christer Bergström lists between 527 and 554 losses to all causes among German tanks, tank destroyers, and assault guns during the campaign, of which 324 were lost in combat.{{sfn|Bergström|2014|p=426}} Of the German write-offs, 16–20 were Tigers, 191–194 Panthers, 141–158 Panzer IVs, and 179–182 were tank destroyers and assault guns. Hermann Jung gave figures for 600 German tanks across the entire western front from 16 December 1944, to 1 February 1945.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Jung |first1=Hermann |title=Die Ardennen-Offensive 1944/45 |date=1971 |publisher=Musterschmidt |page=195 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Die_Ardennen_Offensive_1944_45/yfIAzgEACAAJ?hl=en |access-date=23 April 2023 |language=de}}</ref> Other sources place German losses in the range of 600–800: Magna E. Bauer's review of OKW records suggests 324 losses in December (77 Panzer IVs, 132 Panthers, 13 Tigers, and 102 assault guns) and even more in January. American losses over the same period were similarly heavy, totaling from 733 tanks and tank destroyers (exclusive of other types and losses suffered by British XXX Corps){{sfn|Parker|1991|pp=292–293}} to 800 in tanks alone.{{sfn|Caddick-Adams|2015|p=649}}