Using those two numbers, 50 billion rounds and 60 million deaths, we softball a figure of 834 rounds fired for every death caused. Not all of those people were killed by munitions – death camps, civilian casualties, starvation and other privations would have added to the toll as well, but for simplicity, I’m using the 60 million number. So, how many people were killed in the war? Obviously exact numbers are almost impossible to find, but most estimates put the number at around 60 million people, or about 3% of the world’s population at that time. I think we can reasonably assume that 50 billion rounds of ammunition were fired over the course of the war. Germany had a big industrial war machine, as did England and Japan. It was distributed among many allies, and there is no evidence that it was all fired, but that number, 47 billion, also doesn’t include ammunition made by any other country either.
This ammo wasn’t just for American soldiers. Chrysler alone was manufacturing 12.5 million rounds of ammunition a month, according to a different source. So are the heroes (although the heroes are all Hollywood Grade A good shots when the plot needs).Īccording to one source, the US military industrial complex (if you could call it that in the 1940s) made over 47 billion rounds of small arms ammunition to be used in World War II. It’s not just the stormtroopers who are bad shots. Maybe the weaponry inaccuracy was also a reflection of that source. We know that Lucas modelled much of the Star Wars military universe after World War II films.
It’s not just the stormtroopers who are bad shots Their activities tended more towards policing than large scale military action. What do we really know about them? They were the successors to the clone army that defeated the Jedi, supposedly inheriting a peaceful situation.
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