[TARGSHOOT]

have not dug real deep but how many rounds of ammunition do you think were fired from the time we hit the beaches at utah and omaha until 24 hours later the next morning ?? just food for thought. cannot find any info on this, but as said i have not dug that deep yet. what is your take on this

 

[franks71vw]

I will take a scientific guesss and thinking that if you take the square root of the total numbers of ammunition manufactures at the time. Then add this number to the total # of companies in the army and mulitply it by the number of cooks that were not present (since 1 cook can feed x amount of soldiers) I would have to guess the total number be between >1 and < atrillion squared. My calculatins may be off but I think I hit it.


can you tell i am bored... actually reading WORLD WAR II a complete photographic History by Hal Buell

 

[cpobr]

How much for friend or foe together? Anyone with stats?

 

[42rocker]

rounds fired D-Day

I was in France a few years ago for June 6th 2004, 60th Annv. Was reading a newspaper about a German that was a gunner in a pill box with a mg42 or mg34 (sorry memory is weak) and he stated that He had a count of the ammo boxs when D-Day started and about what was left when he ran as he was about to be overrun. In the paper (as I recall) he stated that he had fired over 12,000 rounds at the GI and Brits coming ashore. Thats one pill box,

SOooooo GOD Knows!

I just know that I am THANKFUL of the Vets that fought for us and had to go through such a firestorm of MILLIONS of rounds fired that day for the freedom of the world. One of my clients was telling us today how his father a tailgunner in a B17 was flying support for the D-Day landings.

THANKS AGAIN VETS. Dad was in the 11th Airborne.
GOD BLESS

42rocker

 

[AaronHorrocks]

Numbers would be close to a billion

 

[TARGSHOOT]

i was thinking about how much was expended by both sides during that first 24 hour period.

 

[AaronHorrocks]

As was I!

Aircraft on both sides (Thousands of rounds, EACH)
German Anti-Aircraft Artillery (Hundreds of rounds EACH)
Allied Navy Barrage on the shore (Hundreds of rounds EACH)
German Artillery Barrage back to ships (Hundreds of rounds EACH)
Allied Infantry assaulting the beaches (Hundreds of rounds EACH)
- (Machineguns (Thousands of rounds, EACH))
German Machinegun nets (Thousands of rounds, EACH)
and infantry fire on the infantry (Hundreds of rounds EACH)

That's why I'm saying hundreds of millions, close to a billion

 

[phalanx]

Round that has killed more people than any other ? 9mm ? NO ,7.62x39.
9mm is number 2 ,followed by 7.62 x 51 /3 ,then 30-06/8mm hard to say/4
then 45 , they lumped this together with ACP&45lc/5 then believe it or not 22LR /6 then 38/357 /7 then 30/30 win./7 then 69cal BP/8 then after that it was hard to tell ,the British 405 was a contender but with the records we have its an if.
Calibers above 45 ,Number one 50BMG , two 20mm after that it was hard to tell.
This was only an estimate ,on JANES ,when a writer there was asked.
Only the first two are most likely reliable ,But bullet is defiantly 7.62 ,all round killer of all time.
This was only this guys opinion ,from looking at war and crime stats. what do you guys think ?
But it looks like the American 30cal ,is number one ,even this day on June 6 1944 ,up untill now.

 

[comanderfritz]

my grandfathers destroyer ran out of ammunition twice.. how much does a destroyer escort usaly carry?

 

[phalanx]

Go to JANE'S .com and ask. Become a payed member and she will tell you who the Capitan of a Submarine was in 1944 ,any side ,and bring up His life story.

 

[Bolt2bounce]

I'd have to agree I say close to a billion rounds went down the tubes on D day or close to that ammount, but arty is the major killer on the battle fields and not small arms...B2B

 

[Bill S]

...but arty is the major killer on the battle fields and not small arms...B2B

Have you got actual data for that? Although artillery is certainly destructive, other than against fixed positions I wouldn't expect it to produce as high a casualty rate.

 

[Bolt2bounce]

I don't have any stats, but they call artillery the king of battle, trust me it's the most casuality producing weapon on the battle field; at least it has been in past wars. Maybe it's the IED these days... In basic training at Fort Sill Ok which is the U.S. Army artillery training center. My instructors said many many times "Artillery is the KING of Battle... B2B