Talk:Battle of the Bulge

Infobox casualty sub-components don't sum to stated 81,000 total

The article's infobox presents a casualty sub-total that does not match its own components.

The infobox lists American casualties as: "81,000 casualties (8,407 killed, 46,170 wounded and 20,905 missing)."

Adding the three sub-components: 8,407 + 46,170 + 20,905 = 75,482, not 81,000.

The gap is 5,518 — far too large to be a transcription error and far too large to be rounding. The article presents a parenthetical breakdown that purports to explain where the 81,000 figure comes from, yet the three categories it lists sum to a number nearly 7% lower than the headline figure. Either the headline total is wrong, one or more of the sub-components is wrong, or a category of casualty (e.g., captured) is missing from the parenthetical but not disclosed. As written, the infobox is internally inconsistent: the stated sum of parts does not equal the stated whole. Rome (talk) 04:16, 6 May 2026 (UTC)