that? it was attacked and captured a small ranger battalion that didn t have a public information officer or anything like that. there was no one to count what we accomplished. the american forces put bulldozers in there and filed those things under as much dirt as they could if the counter attack actually got into that area. they did erg they could to destroy and cover them up. there are so many things there is only one shining example so others could be free. by the end of the war america lost more than 405,000 lives during germany and japan.