The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission (1988) Body Count Breakdown by Kooshmeister
[CHARACTER KILLS]
Major Wright (Telly Savalas): 10
Dravko Demchuk (Alex Cord): 7
Fred Collins (John Matuszak): 4
Joseph Hamilton (Ernie Hudson): 2
General Kurt Richter (Matthew Burton): 2
Joe Stern (Hunt Block): 1
Carmine D’Agostino (Erik Estrada): 1
Roberto Echevarria (Richard Yniguez): 1
Lieutenant Carol Campbell (Heather Thomas): 1
Yelena Petrovic (Natalia Nogulich): 1
[CORPSE BREAKDOWN]
The Good German: 5
-Captain Karl Ludwig is shot by German soldiers while trying to defect.
-3 German soldiers shot by American soldiers.
-1 German soldier killed by a grenade
Training: 1
-Hoffman is killed when his parachute fails to open. It is later revealed that this was D’Agostino’s doing.
Forest ambush: 5
-5 Yugoslavian resistance members shot by German soldiers
Torture: 1
-Vasco dies while being tortured by the Germans
Yugoslavian border: 29
-Hamilton shoots 1 German officer
-Wright shoots 1 German soldier
-6 German soldiers shot by Americans and Yugoslavians
-3 Germans killed by an explosion
-Grenade thrown by unidentified character blows up 3 Germans
-1 Yugoslavian resistance member shot by a German
-Demchuk shoots 3 German soldiers
-Demchuk shoots 1 German radio operator
-Echevarria shoots 1 German
-Collins shoots 1 German
-Grenade thrown by unidentified character blows up 5 Germans
Bulgarian border: 3
-Wright shoots 1 Bulgarian officer
-Demchuk shoots 1 Bulgarian soldier
-Yelena shoots 1 Bulgarian soldier
Taking the train: 29
-Collins shoots 3 German soldiers
-Campbell shoots 1 German soldier
-Hamilton shoots 1 Nazi official
-4 German soldiers shot by unidentified characters
-1 American soldier shot by a German on train roof
-Wright shoots that same German
-Stern shoots 1 Nazi official
-1 German soldier shot by unidentified character(s)
-Demchuk shoots 2 train engineers
-Collins kills 2 German soldiers with a grenade
-1 American soldier shot by a surviving German
-That same German is shot by an unidentified character
-Wright shoots 1 German soldier on train roof
-1 American soldier shot by a fatally wounded German
-The dying German is finished off by gunfire from unidentified characters
-2 Yugoslavian resistance members shot by a German soldier
-Wright shoots 1 German soldier
-Wright blows up 4 German soldiers with a grenade
Betrayal: 1
-Wright shoots D’Agostino, who was a traitor
Turkish border: 33
-Shorty shot by Germans jumping from the train
-1 American soldier shot by Germans jumping from the train
-Demchuk shot by Germans in the locomotive
-4 Germans killed by an explosion
-Richter shoots 2 of his own men for running away
-2 German soldiers killed by an exploding truck
-4 more Germans killed by a random explosion
-Richter killed getting hit by the train
-2 more Germans die from random explosions
-10 Nazi officials (all seen prior) killed when train cars explode
-2 German soldiers killed by same explosions
-3 Germans’ corpses shown lying on the ground
[THE UNCONFIRMED AND UNCOUNTED]
Although I have counted them, technically every German killed at the Turkish border except the two Richter shoots in a rage can be attributed to either Wright (who ordered the train to keep going) or Demchuk (who was the one driving it), but I was uncertain how responsible either would be since the Germans both inside and outside the crashing train would technically just be collateral damage. In any event, Wright and Demchuk were less concerned with killing the Germans and more concerned with getting off the train, so none of the deaths were intentional on their part except perhaps the 10 Nazi officials who had been held prisoner in one train car, whom Wright deliberately left behind. However this is still fairly ambiguous and the Nazis could’ve gotten off (no indication is given that they were executed prior to the Americans bailing) but since they weren’t also shown bailing I count them as dead.