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Remember... On June 6th, 1944, hundreds of thousands of young Americans, British, and Canadiens, assisted by the French Resistance did something most thought impossible. Something amazing. Not for themselves, but for each other, for their countrymen, and for countless people they never met.
The accepted estimate is that the Allies suffered 10,000 total casualties on D-Day itself. The highest casualties occurred on Omaha beach, where 2,000 U.S. troops were killed, wounded or went missing; at Sword Beach and Gold Beach, where 2,000 British troops were killed, wounded or went missing; and at Juno beach, where 340 Canadian soldiers were killed and another 574 wounded.
The accepted estimate is that the Allies suffered 10,000 total casualties on D-Day itself. The highest casualties occurred on Omaha beach, where 2,000 U.S. troops were killed, wounded or went missing; at Sword Beach and Gold Beach, where 2,000 British troops were killed, wounded or went missing; and at Juno beach, where 340 Canadian soldiers were killed and another 574 wounded.
How Many Were Killed on D-Day?
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Don’t forget the ~20,000 or so French civilians that were killed. They tend to be overlooked.....
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COL Charles Williams Hard to Imagine that Kind of Killing Field and the Bravery to Attack that Beach Knowing Odds were You were going to Die.
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