About D-Day: June 6 1944: Under the command of British Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay, 8 different navies - comprised of 6,939 vessels: 1,213 warships, 4,126 landing craft of various types, 736 ancillary craft, and 864 merchant vessels, involving 195,700 naval personnel (52,889 of whom were American) - invaded the coast of Normandy on 5 beaches in France. Accompanying the naval assault, 2,200 British, Canadian, and US bombers attacked targets along the coast and further inland.
Allied casualties on the first day were at least 10,000 - 4,414 were confirmed dead. The Germans lost 1,000 men. Civilian casualties were around 3,000. The largest seaborne invasion in history, the goal was to liberate France from Nazi invaders. While D-Day wasn't initially as successful as hoped, Paris was liberated by August. By May of the following year, the Allies accepted the unconditional surrender of the Nazis.
Total Fatalities: From 1939 until the end of World War 2 it is believed that about 70 - 85 million people (an estimated 3% of the world's population at the time) died in the war - troops and civilians included.
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Allied casualties on the first day were at least 10,000 - 4,414 were confirmed dead. The Germans lost 1,000 men. Civilian casualties were around 3,000. The largest seaborne invasion in history, the goal was to liberate France from Nazi invaders. While D-Day wasn't initially as successful as hoped, Paris was liberated by August. By May of the following year, the Allies accepted the unconditional surrender of the Nazis.
Total Fatalities: From 1939 until the end of World War 2 it is believed that about 70 - 85 million people (an estimated 3% of the world's population at the time) died in the war - troops and civilians included.
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