Searah jarum jam dari atas kiri: Rotterdam setelah Blitz, Pesawat Heinkel He 111 milik Jerman saat Pertempuran Britania, penerjun payung sekutu ketika Operasi Market Garden, Tentara Amerika berlari menyusuri Wernberg, Jerman, Siege of Bastogne, Tentara Amerika mendarat di Pantai Omaha ketika Operasi Overlord
Front Barat dari kawasan Eropa saat Perang Dunia II terdiri dari Denmark, Norwegia, Luksemburg, Belgia, Belanda, dan Jerman Barat.[17] Front Barat ini ditandai dengan 2 fase operasi skala besar. Fase pertama adalah dikuasai Belanda, Belgia, dan Prancis pada bulan Mei dan Juni 1940 oleh Nazi Jerman dan berlanjut pada peperangan udara antara Jerman dan Inggris (Pertempuran Britania). Fase kedua adalah peperangan darat skala besar yang dimulai dengan pendaratan pasukan sekutu di Normandia dan berlanjut sampai kalahnya Jerman bulan Mei 1945.
Referensi
^MacDonald, C (2005), The Last Offensive: The European Theater of Operations. University Press of the Pacific, p.478
^Ellis provides no figure for Danish casualties, he places Norwegian losses at 2,000 killed or missing with no information provided on those wounded or captured. Dutch casualties are placed at 2.890 killed or missing, 6.900 wounded, with no information provided on those captured. Belgian casualties are placed at 7.500 killed or missing, 15.850 wounded, and 200.000 captured. French casualties amounted to 120,000 killed or missing, 250.000 wounded, and 1.450.000 taken prison. British losses totalled to 11.010 killed or missing, 14.070 wounded (only those who were evacuated have been counted), and 41.340 taken prisoner.[2] Losses in 1940, according to Ellis’ information, thus amount to 2.121.560.
^43.110 Germans killed or missing, 111.640 wounded, no information is provided on any who were captured. Italian losses amounted to 1.250 killed or missing, 4.780 wounded, and no information is provided on any who were captured.[8]
^Germany: 157.621 casualties (27.074 dead (The final count of the German dead is possibly as high as 49.000 men when including the losses suffered by the Kriegsmarine, because of additional non-combat causes, the wounded who died of their injuries, and the missing who were confirmed as dead.[10] However this higher figure has not been used in the overall casualty figure), 111.034 wounded, 18.384 missing,[10][11][12] as well as 1,129 aircrew killed.[13] Italia: 6.029 korban (1.247 tewas/hilang, 2,631 terluka, and 2,151 hospitalised due to frostbite[butuh rujukan]; Italian forces were involved in fighting in the French Alps, where severe sub-zero temperatures is common even during the summer.)
^German losses between June 1941 and 10 April 1945, on the Western Front for the army only, amounted to 80,820 killed, 490,260 missing, and 265,526 wounded.[6]
^Total German casualties between September 1939 to 31 December 1944, on the Western Front for both the army, Waffen SS, and foreign volunteers amounts to 128,030 killed, 399,860 wounded, and 7,614,790 captured (including 3,404,950 who were disarmed following the surrender of Germany)[6]
^Jerman mengerahkan 40% angkatan darat dan 75% Luftwaffe mereka di Front Barat. Tahun 1944, ada sekitar 69 divisi Jerman di Prancis dan 19 di Italia (jumlahnya tidak pasti karena adanya pemindahan dan peletakan baru) Keegan, John (1990). The Second World War. Source-Axis History Factbook. Menurut David Glantz PDFDiarsipkan 2011-07-09 di Wayback Machine., pada bulan Januari 1945 pasukan Poros telah mengerahkan 2,3 juta melawan Tentara Merah. Namun, akibat kurang persiapan pada musim dingin, mereka mengalami kekalahan dengan 510.000 tentara terbunuh di Timur dan 325.000 di Barat. Bulan April 1945, 1,96 juta tentara Jerman menghadapi 6,4 juta pasukan Tentara Merah di perbatasan Berlin, Cekoslowakia, dan beberapa daerah di kawasan timur lainnya. Di sisi lain, 4 juta tentara Sekutu di barat menghadapi tentara Jerman yang kurang dari 1 juta orang. Bulan Mei 1945, Soviet menerima 1,5 juta tentara yang menyerah, sedangkan di sisi lain 1 juta tentara Jerman lain menyerah pada Inggris dan Amerika.
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