after WW2 some british chaps calculated that they spendt thousands of rounds of ammo for every man killed.
I think it was 1 or 2 thousand rounds or something. Not shure though.
In the Vietnam war, they conducted a test after a battle by counting the dead, and the number of shell casings. The rounds/kill ratio was found to be extremely ridiculous. Of course that was Vietnam where automatic weapons were more common, and that caused more spray and pray tactics.
I was able to find this
Enemy Casualties caused by US soldiers
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WW I -- 7,000 rounds/casualty
WW II -- 25,000 rounds/casualty
Korea -- 50,000 rounds/casualty
Vietnam -- 200,000-400,000 rounds/casualty
http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?30316-Rounds-per-kill-in-Vietnam/page2 - about half way down the page, post #25.
Pretty interesting. Most people that are not interested in these sort of things don't realize how much lead is put into knocking one tango down. That is of course, including surpressive fire, I'm guessing aimed fire would be a much lower rnd/casualty ratio.
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