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  Civilian casualties - tScholars.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Civilian casualties is a military term describing civilian, non-combatant persons killed or injured by direct military action.
One example of unintended civilian casualties is when an aircraft targets a bridge with a missile, then lauches the missile, and the pilot realizes that a bus full of women and children is driving onto the bridge.
Typically civilian casualties are casued due to the proximity of civilians to another military force or a military target coupled with the use of weapons that were, and still are, not extremely accurate.
www.tscholars.com /encyclopedia/Civilian_casualties   (817 words)

  
 Blast Effects
There is a great deal of discrepancy in casualty figures reported by authorities, in part because it is not known precisely how many were present at the time of detonation.
When one compares incendiary to blast casualties, it is possible to get a rough sense of the difference in lethality for the two classes of weapons.
Casualties were lower than in the previous raids, in part, because many had evacuated and were well-familiar with the consequences of firestorms.
www.nukefix.org /weapon.html   (9526 words)

  
 World War II casualties - Voyager, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Combining the total deaths of 11,000,000 people for the Axis and 51,000,000 people for the Allies, the total estimated human loss of life, irrespective of political alignment, caused by World War II was roughly 62,000,000 people with combined civilian and military deaths of 37,000,000 and 25,000,000 respectively.
The casualties of World War II were suffered disproportionately by the various participants.
Figures include casualties from the Winter War and Continuation War with the Soviet Union as well as action against German forces in 1944, Winter War (1939-40) losses were 23,000, military deaths from 1941-45 were 67,000 and 1,000 in 1944 with the allies
www.voyager.in /List_of_World_War_II_casualties_by_country   (3038 words)

  
 World War II Memories presented by Eldred World War II Museum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
There were several Marine casualties, but the enemy's charge failed.
At this point two of Paige's machine guns were destroyed and eight of the 33 Marines were eliminated from combat.
Moments later, a second wave of enemy troops came up the slope and every Marine in Sergeant Paige's platoon became a casualty of the battle that followed.
www.eldredwwiimuseum.org /memory.html   (2165 words)

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