The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-09

The cost in money will 5c in- ', creased in future ,ears by mary billions of dollars through inteltsv on government borrowing and benefits to veterans. The cost T.. broken lives, .oo, vii, oe LGld owe" long period. Most of the government tXpsTtS consulted in the survey belie|ed that at least two-thirds Of the collar out lay since defense preparations bc- gan in 194O went directly or in- directly into the war against Ger many and Italy. This is based on the allocation of men to the two major spheres of combat. On the basis of the best available lnforma- tion, two U. s. fighting mtn were sent to Europe for each 1ne sent to the Pacific.
 The cost estimate includes not only guns, bullets, planes and tanks, plus the plants to make them, but also such items as lend-lease expen- ditures, training costs, merchant lships, transportation, subsistence and lite1 ally thousands of articles and services that never appeared on the | field of battle but were vial vic tory
 Here are the results of the sur vey:
 Cost in money-Defenso and War expenditures total more than $227,- 6CC 100000 since July 1, 1940. As signing two-thirds of this 10 the Eu1 opean war gives q figme of $l85 ,066, 900 900. This compares with the s55, 345 ,OOO, 900 cost of lAc last war. The figure for the last war includes continuing expens:s for many years after the war ard un- paid war debts. The figure for tlliS war is just the cost up to noyi.
 Cost in casualties-approXim 800,000 men killed, wounded, missing and prisoners. This is ptojecteG figure because the official cas,ia.ty compila tions are far behind. Army casualties compiled here by theaters as of March 3l showed a total of 685, PAT for the European, Mediterranean, Middle East and Caribbean theaters all part of the European war The figures in- cluded 133, ,284 killed, 431 ,965 wound- ed. 67,008 missing and 52,99O pris- oners.
 But these figures actually includ- ed only casualties suffered until | early March Much severe fight | ing was not covered by these reports, | and it will be months before final | casualty data of the war against | Germany is available. Best esti- mates are that the European thea t, alone will report a final cas- ualty total exceeding 6000O0.
 The Navy has never broken down | its casualties by war theaters so it 1 is impossible to determine accurate ly now what part of Navy casual ties were incurred against Germany | But an informed source said that l through last July, period which | included the toughest phase of the battle of the Atlantic as well as the landing operations in North Africa, Italy and Normandy slightly less than 25 per cent of Navy casualties were suffered in the war against Germany.
 At the end of last July, the Navy had suffered 52,OoO war casualties throughout the world. It may be estimated that naval casualties in the war on Germany totaled be- tween 13,00O and 14,000. No break down of this figure into killed, wounded and missing is available now.
 In World War I. the final cas- ualty total for all the armed serv- ices was 259,735. This included 53,- 878 killed, 201,377 wounded and 4,480 prisoners.
 Relatively speaking, the Merchant Marine suffered the highest death ratio of any of the services engaged in the war against Germany. AL though its casualties by theaters are not available, an estimated 5000 out of more than 5000 casual | ties to date occurred in the Atlantic and adjacent waters. A large por- tion of these are dead or missing. mostly as result of the German ! U-boat campaign in the first 18 months of the war.
 Men involved - Probably between 350O,0Oo and 100000 out of the Armys 5,200,000 men overseas have been involved in the war on Ger many and its satellites. The army has not announced alolcation of its men by theaterS, but some 70 divi-