General Eichelberger later compared the casualty ratio to the American Civil War.

"I make it a tonnage ratio of just about eight hundred to one, and God only knows what the casualty ratio was!"

From mid-1944, the casualty ratio started to outbalance the victories of the Italian pilots.

A Sherman carried five men, a Lee six; the casualty ratio had to be even worse than the one for vehicles.

However, the horrific casualty ratios were beside the point.

The casualty ratio ran in our favor, certainly.

The Germans themselves estimated that any attack on Switzerland would likely result in a 4:1 casualty ratio against them.

The casualty ratio was fairly balanced, though the Soviets lost slightly more than the Germans.

This is by far the highest casualty ratio of any war in which America has been involved.

The exact casualty ratio was top secret, they told me, and as far as I'm aware, it still is today.