Editing Battle of the Bulge (section)

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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>