Top 10 Bloodiest Battles in American History

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#10: D-Day, Normandy
June 6, 1944
D-Day, a.k.a. The Battle of Normandy, was the first battle of Operation Overlord, the military campaign that sent Allied forces into German-occupied territory during World War II. The American sector was tasked, alongside its allies, with landing on Utah and Omaha beach during the assault. Both battles were won by the Allies, but the American forces did not escape this day without severe casualties and deaths. U.S. losses totaled somewhere between forty-five and fifty-five hundred, with the Omaha Beach battalions winning footholds of territory, while Utah Beach forces secured a beachhead at Cherbourg, although facilities located on the latter were heavily damaged by the German military, and made non-operational until early Autumn.

#9: Battle of the Pusan Perimeter
August 4 - September 18, 1950
The Korean War may be colloquially known as “The Forgotten War,” but we can rest assured knowing that nobody involved with The Battle of the Pusan Perimeter would forget these days for the rest of their lives.

#8: The Battle of Saint-Mihiel
September 12-15, 1918
This combined military effort from French and American forces, no matter how you look at it, was a bloody and costly affair during the First World War. The United States Army staged their first major offensive of “The Great War” at Saint-Mihiel, and significantly impressed their French and British counterparts, primarily thanks to artillery success gained against a retreating German army.

#7: The Battle of Anzio
January 22-June 5, 1944
Although historians quantify The Battle of Anzio as one part of the overarching Italian Campaign of World War II

#6: The Battle of Iwo Jima
February 19-March 26, 1945
We move from the Italian Campaign to the Pacific Theatre for our next entry, the comparatively well-known Battle of Iwo Jima. The conflict is one of the more prominently researched battles from the Second World War, and featured American forces comprising both the Marines and Navy taking Iwo Jima Island from the Imperial Japanese Army.

#5: The Battle of Côte d'Azur

August 15-September 14, 1944
The Battle of Côte d'Azur refers to the initial landing of Allied forces upon the beaches of Southern France during World War II.

#4: The Battle of Luzon
January 9-August 15, 1945
The Second World War was marching towards an end by the time American and Filipino forces combined military strengths to free the island of Luzon in 1945. The Filipino Island had been occupied by Japanese forces, but the latter had seen their presence become severely compromised, to the point where only a comparatively small resistance was intact to defend against the combined allies.

#3: The Battle of Okinawa
April 1-June 22, 1945
Another late entry into the battle cycle of World War II was The Battle of Okinawa, also known by the codename Operation Iceberg.

#2: The Battle of the Bulge
December 16, 1944 - January 25, 1945
Germany pushed its forces to the Western Front during the winter of 1945, in an attempt to divide, surround and conquer the Allied forces stationed in Belgium and Luxembourg.

#1: The Battle of Gettysburg
July 1-3, 1863
This multi-day battle was one of the most studied and well-known of the American Civil War. It contained many iconic figures of the war, including General Meade’s Army of the Potomac and Robert E. Lee’s forces from Northern Virginia, although it would eventually become known more for the defeat of the latter, and a turning point for a Union victory. Outcome aside, The Battle of Gettysburg was the site of massive American casualties and deaths, over forty thousand in number, and a true testament to the bitterness and tragedy that defined this conflict.

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