Attack that caused the most deaths in 24 hours

[AmdEmAll]

Originally posted by: iluvtruenos

Originally posted by: AmdEmAll

Originally posted by: AmdEmAll

Originally posted by: iluvtruenos
Saturday's Al Queda attack.

HAHAHAH

To actually add something to this thread. I believe there was a larger tsunami then the recent one. I think it was in china and kill like 600k people, dunno if that was in 24hr's though.

EDIT: oh he said 'Attack'

😕

I think you quoted the wrong thing, boss.

Yeah im not sure how I ended up quoting my self 😕

 

[Chaotic42]

Dresden

 

[HBalzer]

Originally posted by: Chaotic42
Dresden

That is what i thought

 

[no0b]

I love the smell of thermite in the morning. It smells like.... like Victory.

 

[elbosco]

I'm sure the Rape of Nanking is high up on the list.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Originally posted by: elbosco
I'm sure the Rape of Nanking is high up on the list.

In terms of total dead, yes. But that was spaced over the course of weeks. In a 24 hour period it's hard to think of anything that was close to Dresden. The number killed in the initial blasts at Hiroshima and Nagasaki together barely equal a 10th of the single day dead in Dresden.

 

[EyeMWing]

The relevant bit from Wikipedia:

Individual massacres, air raids, and concentration camps

* 1,100,000 - Auschwitz concentration camp (Oswiecim, Poland, 1940-1945)
* 700,000?1,000,000 - Treblinka extermination camp, (Treblinka, Poland, 1942-1943)
* 500,000?900,000 - 1938 Huang He flood, caused by sabotage in the Second Sino-Japanese War (1938)
* 250,000?800,000 - Sack of Baghdad by Hulagu Khan (1258)
* 50,000?350,000 - Rape of Nanking, China (1937)
* 260,000 - Sobibór extermination camp
* 66,000?237,062 - Hiroshima Bombing (Japan, 1945)

Since Hiroshima is the only one on there that comes even remotely close to 1 day...

 

[randumb]

It can't be Dresden. More people died in the firebombing of Tokyo (100,000).

 

[Gibsons]

Dresden or Tokyo maybe tops for bombings. Both more than Hiroshima iirc.

Probably first day of the Battle of the Somme for land battles. Brits lost something like 55k on the first day, not sure what the Germans lost.

Verdun, Stalingrad etc all racked up a lot of numbers, but not as much in one day as the Somme.

 

[HBalzer]

Originally posted by: randumb
It can't be Dresden. More people died in the firebombing of Tokyo (100,000).

You must be looking at wikipedia

 

[HBalzer]

Most sources say Dresden Fire-Bombings killed 500,000 or so due to the refugees in the city at the time.

 

[LordMorpheus]

Originally posted by: FleshLight
Hiroshima

no.

It would have to be the conventional bombing campaigns of WWII.

Maybe the firebombing of Tokyo.

Perhaps the bombing of a german City.


I bet you can find a 24 hour stretch of Tokyo's history where more people died than did at Hiroshima or Nagasaki.

 

[randumb]

Originally posted by: HBalzer
Most sources say Dresden Fire-Bombings killed 500,000 or so due to the refugees in the city at the time.

Those are the wildly high estimates. Most modern historians believe its somewhere in the 30,000 range.

And no, I wasn't looking at wikipedia.

 

[FrustratedUser]

Hiroshima/Nagasali

 

[FrustratedUser]

Originally posted by: JToxic

Originally posted by: FleshLight
Hiroshima

How many of those deaths were actually in 24 hours? I know a lot of the casualties took a few days to die.

In Horoshima between 75000 and 100000 died instantly. In Nagasaki around 35000 dies instantly.

 

[BudAshes]

Originally posted by: Zim Hosein

Originally posted by: HBalzer
Attack that caused the most deaths in 24 hours

Anyone know?

List of wars and disasters by death toll

that is god damn mind boggling that almost 70 million people died in ww2.

Thats over 1% of the people in the world dead.

 

[chuckywang]

Originally posted by: FrustratedUser

Originally posted by: JToxic

Originally posted by: FleshLight
Hiroshima

How many of those deaths were actually in 24 hours? I know a lot of the casualties took a few days to die.

In Horoshima between 75000 and 100000 died instantly. In Nagasaki around 35000 dies instantly.

Geez, mass slaughter....

 

[0roo0roo]

yeai go with firebombing cities too. it made it so hot it created its own weather basically, massive fire storm.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Dresden_in_World_War_II

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firestorm

 

[Excelsior]

Dresden, obviously.

 

[b0mbrman]

Originally posted by: eLiu
I might vote for the battle of Antiedam (I THINK), the worst single day of battle of the Civil War...something like 60k deaths?

Maybe my memory is off on this one, but I know the civil war had some ugly battles

Yes, the Battle of Sharpsburg produced 26,000 casualties in 24 hours

 

[Icopoli]

I take that back,

'The death toll was staggering. The full extent of the Dresden Holocaust can be more readily grasped if one considers that well over 250,000 -- possibly as many as a half a million -- persons died within a 14-hour period, whereas estimates of those who died at Hiroshima range from 90,000 to 140,000'

http://www.rense.com/general19/flame.htm

 

[intogamer]

marawana

 

[AAman]

an entire generation of my family in the 'old country' (my grandmother's cousins) died in the Dresden bombing

she has the clipping from a local paper here in th US that tells about it, I never knew what she was
talking about growing up until she showed it to me about 10 years ago
(even with the war, mail still came across I guess and the family was told even though we
were at war with Germany)

 

[Soccerman06]

LOTR 2 or 3, whichever has the most human/orcs/elves dying

 

[Calin]

Originally posted by: Xafgoat

Originally posted by: Zim Hosein

Originally posted by: HBalzer
Attack that caused the most deaths in 24 hours

Anyone know?

List of wars and disasters by death toll

that is god damn mind boggling that almost 70 million people died in ww2.

Thats over 1% of the people in the world dead.

No, by then the world population was much less than what is now. It might be close to 3%