All of the work that the paratroopers put into preparing fields of fire to cover avenues of approach had paid off, and the Germans had sustained staggering casualties.

Enemy losses reached a staggering 9,000-10,000 casualties, with 25 cannons lost.

The regiment suffered a staggering 3585 casualties out of the 4447 officers and men, who served with it in the First World War.

The Texan volunteers taught the U.S. regulars new techniques for fighting in the city; techniques that they did not employ on the 21st which led to staggering casualties.

By the year's end the division had suffered a staggering 7,192 casualties since the start of Operation Barbarossa, including 252 Officer casualties, and of these 1,722 were killed.

His corps had held off Zhukov for forty-eight hours, inflicting staggering casualties.

Many heroes; staggering casualties; ill-trained leaders.

They had suffered staggering casualties in the battle on Bryn Shander's slopes, though they had never even considered the affair their business.

Three years of intermittent fighting ended last June - with staggering casualties, perhaps 100,000 dead all told on both sides, and Ethiopia's superior military deep inside Eritrea.

But the invading force, which included many soldiers from Australia and New Zealand, found Turkish defenders astonishingly tenacious and willing to take staggering casualties.