Pte Harvey's citation states he was given the medal for capturing two guns and engaging an "enemy strong point" single-handedly on 25 October 1918, actions which "saved many casualties and inspired all".
We have now, just as we did then, the ability to stop this, and as contemptible as it is to wager human life, the amount of people a Saddam-free Iraq will save outweighs the casualties of today".
Harry Abe is with it the whole way, from Italy to the French forest, where they rescue the Lost Battalion and suffer 800 casualties to save 200 Texans, and on to Dachau.
His force was too late and too weakened by casualties to save Kanpur, but at the fourth attempt he took Lucknow, securing a knighthood, promotion to major-general and eventually a place in Trafalgar Square.
What if they couldn't save everyone and massive casualties were incurred as a result of Stark's misjudgment and failure?
By making targeting more efficient, she believes, this could have reduced casualties, saved money, and possibly shortened the war.
As for the atomic bombs, they saved millions of casualties; it would have been criminal of President Truman to proceed with an invasion of Japan and the inevitable loss of so many more lives.J.S. METESSingaporeOff messageSIR Having read Bagehot's dubious logic attempting to justify the sidelining of Mo Mowlam (September 9th), I would suggest that it is time he took a holiday.DAVID LINDSAYLondon.
As expected, the number of casualties saved increases in a linear fashion with the number of businesses involved in the scheme; however, the gradient of each line varies (Fig. 12).
Stimson subsequently talked of saving one million U.S. casualties, and Churchill of saving one million American and half that number of British lives".
Xi Jinping, the Chinese president, "urged all-out efforts to save the injured and minimize casualties".
