The Great War in Numbers
Still unexploded mine shaft at Messines [Yes, today]
2 . . .Officers of Gen. Pershing's staff to win Nobel Peace Prize 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Members of Central Powers Capital ships lost by Britain and Germany at Jutland
7 . .German armies invading Northern France under Schlieffen Plan 11 . . . . . . . Italian offensives on the Isonzo River,1915-1918 Air Aces of all nations with more than 50 aircraft downed
23 . . . . . . . . . .Allied vessels sunk by German cruiser Emden 24 . . Nations declaring war on one or more of the Central Power 838q162i s 35 . . . . . . . . . . . . Range in yards of German Flammenwerfer 38 . . . . . Length in miles of Voie Sacree, Bar le Duc to Verdun 50 . . . . . . Seconds of machine gun fire available to typical fighter plane
51 . . . . . German warships scuttled at Scapa Flow, 21 June 1919 55 . . . . . . Mutineers actually executed by French Army in 1917 68 . . . . . Average daily British advance in yards, 3rd Ypres - Passchendaele, 31 July-7 Dec 1917
80 . . . . . . . . Distance fired in miles by German Paris guns 81 .Jastas (fighter squadrons) avail. German Air Service Mar 1918 103 . . . . . . German airship and bomber raids on Great Britain 120 . . American infantry regiments in action, 2nd week, Oct 1918 123 . . . . . . Zeppelin and similar airships produced by Germany 132 . . . . . . German soldiers captured by Sgt. York 8 Oct 1918 136 . . . . . . . Russian divisions on Eastern Front, Spring 1916 174 . . American killed in action in Northern Russia and Siberia 178 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . German U-Boats lost in action 200 . . Estimated Allied soldiers helped to escape by nurse Edith Cavell before her execution by the German Army
324 . . . . . . . .British tanks in service at Battle of Cambrai 394 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Survivors of 'Lost Battalion' 420 . .Diameter in millimeters of Ger. 'Big Bertha' siege mortars 450 . . . . . . . . .Rounds per minute fired by Lewis machine gun 452 . .Distance in miles Tipperary, Ireland to Armentiers, France 466 . . . . . . . Length of Western Front in miles October 1914 634 . . . . . . . . . .Victoria Crosses awarded in the Great War 675 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Allied air raids on Germany 1,000 . Daily ave. caloric intake German adult civilians Jan 1918 2,600 . . . . . . . . . . . . Allied ships sunk by German U-Boats 3,500 . . . Distance in miles of Lettow-Vorbeck's African 'Trek' 4,278 . . .Trains required to mobilize French Army in August 1914 5,200 . . . . .US Casualties per sq. mile, Belleau Wood June 1918 5,400 . . . . . Sopwith Camel fighter planes produced by Britain 8,237 . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tanks produced by all combatants 13042 . . . . . . . .Code identifying group on Zimmerman Telegram 16,500 . . . Distance in yards of initial opening fire at Jutland 17,000 . . . . . . . . . . . 75-mm field guns produced by France 56,000 . . . . . . . . Mines laid by US Navy in North Sea barrage 58,000 . . . . Estimated British casualties, 1st day on the Somme 75,000 . . . . . . . .Japanese troops deployed to Siberia in 1918 100,000 . . . Size of German Army allowed under Versailles Treaty 116,000 . . . . . . . . . . .American military killed, all causes 275,000 . . . . . . . . . . .Italian prisoners taken at Caporetto 325,000 . . . . . . . . .Turkish military killed in the Great War 460,000 . . . . . . . . .Italian military killed in the Great War 529,808 . . . . . . . . British and Commonwealth military killed: neither identified nor found
584,996 . . . . . . . . British and Commonwealth military killed: identified and buried
1,200,000 . . . Austro-Hungarian military killed in the Great War 1,385,000 . . . . . . . . French military killed in the Great War 1,700,000 . . . . . . . .Russian military killed in the Great War 1,808,000 . . . . . . . . German military killed in the Great War 7,000,000 . . . Estimated combatants maimed for life, all nations 8,000,000 . . . Est. civilians killed in Great War: Non-influenza 8,300,000 . . . . . . . Estimated combatants killed, all nations 19,536,000 . . . . . . . Estimated wounded soldiers, all nations 21,500,000 . . . . Min. deaths in 1918 Spanish Influenza Pandemic 32,000,000 . Estimated artillery shells fired in Battle of Verdun 61,526,000 . Soldiers mobilized by all belligerents in Great War 23,000,000,000 . Reparations demanded by Allied Powers in dollars 82,400,000,000 . .Direct Cost of war to belligerents-1913 dollars ???????????? . . .All costs of the Great War, 1914-present, incl: Debt servicing, veterans and surivors bene-
fits, lost human capital and productivity,
reconstruction requirements, expenses due to
subsequent catastrophes caused by the Great
War, etc., etc.
