議事録には次のようなイーカーの言葉が引用されている。 「日本にたいし航空兵力のみの使用を主張する者はきわめて重大な事実を見過ごして います。それはつまり、航空機のみが敵と対決するときは、航空兵の死傷者数は決して 低下しないという事実です。現在の航空兵の死傷者数は一度の任務につきおよそ二パー セントであり、一月当たりでは約三〇パーセントです」イーカーは続けた。 「時期を逸すれば、敵が有利になるだけです」 「日本殲滅 日本本土侵攻作戦の全貌」（Ｔ・アレン＆Ｎ・ボーマー著） GENERAL EAKER said that he agreed completely with the statements made by General Marshall in his digest of the memorandum prepared for the President. He had just received a cable in which General Arnold also expressed complete agreement. He stated that any blockade of Honshu was dependent upon airdromes on Kyushu; that the air plan contemplated employment of 40 groups of heavy bombers against Japan and that these could not be deployed without the use of airfields on Kyushu. He said that those who advocated the use against Japan of air power alone overlooked the very impressive fact that air casualties are always much heavier when the air faces the enemy alone and that these casualties never fail to drop as soon as the ground forces come in. Present air casualties are averaging 2 percent per mission, about 30 percent per month. He wished to point out and to emphasize that delay month. http://www.endusmilitarism.org/WH_meeting_of_061845.html
戦線別ドイツ軍戦死者統計 Losses per theater Theater Dead % Africa 16.066 0,3 ←アフリカ戦線ｗｗ Balkans 103.693 1,9 North 30.165 0,6 West 339.957 6,4 Italy 150.660 2,8 Eastern Front (- Dec 1944) 2.742.909 51,6 ←ソヴィエト赤軍は Germany (1945) 1.230.045 23,1 ←頼もしいよなぁ♪ Various 245.561 4,6 Total 4.859.056 http://www.axishistory.com/index.php?id=3612
The impact of ICHIGO on Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist Party (Kuomintang or KMT) government vas even more severe. KMT and provincial armies totaling 750, 000 men had been either destroyed, rendered combat ineffective, or simply melted avay, 2 vhlile Mao Tse-tung's Communist army continued to grov in strength and popularity. The KMT emerged from the ICHIGO disaster mortally veakened, thereby making unattainable one of America's primary objectives of the Pacific War, a strong, united and democratic postvar China.
General Joseph Stilwell was relieved in Oct 1944 by Franklin Roosevelt after Chiang Kaishek's complaints that the burden of the losses during Ichigo fell on Stilwell's shoulders. Stilwell's role of Chief of Staff and Commander of the US Forces, China Theater (USFCT) was replaced by Major General Albert Wedemeyer; his other command responsibilities in the China-Burma-India Theater were divided up and allocated to other officers.
