SINCE 6 JUNE 1944, THE ALLIES HAD DISEMBARKED NEARLY 630,000 MEN AND 37,034 AMERICANS AND 24,698 BRITISH AND CANADIAN SOLDIERS WERE KILLED AND WOUNDED.
SINCE 6 JUNE 1944, THE ALLIES HAD DISEMBARKED NEARLY 630,000 MEN AND 37,034 AMERICANS AND 24,698 BRITISH AND CANADIAN SOLDIERS WERE KILLED AND WOUNDED.
Since 6 June 1944, the Allies had disembarked nearly 630,000 men, about 177,000 vehicles and 600,000 tons of equipment.
37,034 Americans and 24,698 British and Canadian soldiers were killed, wounded, taken prisoner or missing in action.
Taking a wider view, during the Battle of Normandy over 425,000 Allied and German troops were killed, wounded or went missing.
This figure includes around 210,000 Allied casualties, with nearly 37,000 killed amongst the ground forces and a further 16,000 deaths amongst the Allied air forces.
German losses of around 200,000 were killed or wounded; a further 200,000 were taken prisoner during the Campaign.
Looking just at the fierce fighting which took place around the Falaise Pocket (or Falaise Gap) in August 1944, the German Army suffered losses in excess of 90,000 men, including those taken prisoner.
French civilian casualties are even more difficult to measure accurately.
Most civilian casualties resulted from Allied bombing, especially in and around Caen.
It is believed that between 15,000 and 20,000 French civilians were killed during the Normandy Campaign, although many more fled their homes to escape the main combat area.
Those who were able to return found extensive destruction left in the wake of the allied advance to Paris.
The death rate was very significantly held down by advances in battle field medical treatment.
Medical personnel were brought into the combat area within a few days of D-Day.
Facilities were crude and makeshift, with casualty clearing stations erected in large canvas tents.
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