Evening star., 1944-08-31
German Casualties Since D-Day
Total 100000 Eisenhower Says;
British FORCES Capture Amiens
Is Divisions
Destroyed and
18 Badly MouIed
By NELSON SHEPARD.

German casualties in North
ern France since D-day total
more than 100000 men killed,
wounded or captured, Gen. Els
enhoWer announced today in a
special communique to the War
Department.
The equivalent of 20 German in
fantry and panzer divisions was
destroyed he said, and 18 others
severely mauled.
Part of the cost of this operation
to the Americans, Gen. Eisenhower
added in plea for continued
maximum Allied war production.
was 1925 planes and 900 tanks.
The German losses besides the
units destroyed, Gen. Eisenhower
said included panzer divisions and
IL infantry divisions very badly
cut up" and suffering severe losses. :"
Included in the infantry units are
three of the enemy's crack para
chute divisions.
100000 Germans Captured.
More than 100000 Nazis have been
captured, he said, $4,000 of them
since July 25
The total continues to mount"
he added
In addition to the reported num-
Der of divisions destroyed and
mauled, Gen. Eisenhower said. one
parachute division and two infantry
divisions are marooned in the for
tress ports of the Brittany Peninsula
and have no hope of escape" I"
Another German infantry division
is isolated on the Channel Islands.
Declaring the Luftwaffe has
taken "a fearful beating" in the air,
he reported that since June 7
2378 German aircraft have been de-
stroyed in the air and 1,167 on the
ground. In addition, 270 aircraft
were probably destroyed and 1923
were damaged in the air.
Vast Equipment Losses.
Coupled with all these reported
losses, Gen. Eisenhower declared the
enemy had suffered vast amounts
OF destroyed equipment and supplies.
Included are 1900 German tanks,
over 10000 motor transports cap
tured or destroyed. 500 assault guns
and 1900 field and heavier artillery
guns. Heavy losses in coast artillery
equipment also were reported.
The German 7th Army and the
newly formed 5th Panzer Army
have been decisively defeated, and
into this defeat have been drawn
the bulk of the fighting strength
of the lst and 18th Armies" Gen.
Eisenhower said. Three field mar
shals and one army commander
have either been dismissed or in
capacitated by wounds One army
commander, three corps command
ers, Is division commanders and
one fortress commander have either
been killed or captured
Gen. Eisenhower's report said that
n spite of enemy boasts the Ger
mans have been unable to inter-
fere seriously at sea with the in
vasion forces. Losses of Allied ship
ping have been small. while some
300 enemy vessels of all classes have
been sunk or heavily damaged by
Allied action. In addition the Nazis
have lost number of merchant
ships at sea and been forced to
scuttle in their harbors large num-
hers of craft, both naval and COM
mercial.
Mine Sweeping Activity.
The Nazis have devoted a large
share of their attention to attacking
the Allies by mine laying. the gen.
eral said with the result that in
three months off the French
beaches the mine bag" totaled one
tenth of all the mines swept in five
years in all war theaters.
The report of the enormous sue
cess of the Allied armies was &C
companied, however, by a message
to 1t. Gen Brehon Somervell, COM
manding the Army Service Forces,
telling of the enormous cost of the
victory in American materiel and
urging that the flow of supplies be
kept up.
Although American units were
shipped to France with full equip
ment, Gen. Eisenhower said, the
ground forces required more than
900 tanks to replace battle causalties
suffered in the first 10 days of oper-
alton.
The Air Force has lost 5000 air.
planes and has consumed in re-
placement parts and spares the equi-
valent Of 225 more, he reported. 1t
'See GERMAN LOSSES, Page A-4J