Only 40% of the tanks in the sample burned, but casualties were distributed evenly between the tanks that burned and those that did not. Whether or not a destroyed tank caught fire made a big difference for the crew. Interestingly, although gunfire accounted for the most tank and crew casualties, infantry anti-tank rockets (such as the Panzerfaust) inflicted 13% of the tank losses, but caused 21% of the crew losses.Ĭasualties were evenly distributed among the crew positions. For each tank loss, an average of one crewman was killed or wounded. The data sampled included 797 medium (averaging 5 crewmen) and 101 light (averaging 4 crewmen) tanks. 1st Army between June 1944 and May 1945 (pp. In his 1990 book Attrition: Forecasting Battle Casualties and Equipment Losses in Modern War, Trevor Dupuy took a look at the relationship between tank losses and crew casualties in the U.S.
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