During the entire North African campaign, the Germans and Italians suffered 620,000 casualties, while the British Commonwealth lost 220,000 men.
American casualties in Tunisia alone totaled more than 18,500. The Allied victory in North Africa destroyed or neutralized nearly 900,000 German and Italian troops, opened a second front against the Axis, permitted the invasion of Sicily and the Italian mainland in the summer of 1943, and removed the Axis threat to the oilfields of the Middle East and to British supply lines to Asia and Africa. It was critically important to the course of World War II.
The British Commonwealth:
circa 220,000 dead, wounded, missing and captured
including 35,478 confirmed dead
Free France:
20,000 killed, wounded and missing
USA:
2,715 killed
8,978 wounded
6,528 missing
Italy:
22,341 dead and missing
340,000 captured
Germany:
18,594 dead
3,400 missing
130,000 captured
Vichy France:
1,346 dead
1,997 wounded
Allied material losses:
2,000 tanks destroyed
1,400 aircraft destroyed
Axis material losses:
800 Aircraft destroyed
6,200 guns, 2,500 tanks, 70,000 vehicles destroyed or captured
