Naval losses for June 1944 included 24 warships and 35 merchantmen or auxiliaries sunk, and a further 120 vessels damaged. The total German casualties on D-Day are not known, but are estimated as being between 4,000 and 9,000 men. Casualties for the US airborne were 2,499, of which 238 were deaths. Losses amongst the British airborne troops are often quoted as some 600 killed or wounded, and 600 missing 100 glider pilots also became casualties. These figures do not include the airborne forces. Rommel's desperate defence of Omaha Beach on D-Day" p.12). Another recent study assesses that the figures for casualties (of all types) for each beach were as follows: Utah 589, Omaha 3,686, Gold 1,023, Juno 1,242, Sword 1,304 (quoted in Stephen Zaloga, "The Devil's Garden. Further research may mean that these numbers will increase slightly in future. They have recorded the names of individual Allied personnel killed on 6 June 1944 in Operation Overlord, and so far they have verified 2,499 American D-Day fatalities and 1,914 from the other Allied nations, a total of 4,413 dead (much higher than the traditional figure of 2,500 dead). However recent painstaking research by the US National D-Day Memorial Foundation has achieved a more accurate - and much higher - figure for the Allied personnel who were killed on D-Day. Broken down by nationality, the D-Day casualty figures that have been cited for many years are approximately 2,700 British, 946 Canadians, and 6,603 Americans. For many years, the Allied casualties figures for D-Day have been estimated at 10,000, including 2,500 dead. Some figures that are often quoted may only represent army losses, and may leave out naval and air forces personnel who became casualties. For example, some troops who were listed as missing may actually have landed in the wrong place, and have rejoined their parent unit only later, or indeed may have died after D-Day before they could rejoin. Under the circumstances, accurate record keeping was very difficult. There is no "official" casualty figure for D-Day. "Casualties" refers to all losses suffered by the armed forces: killed, wounded, missing in action (meaning that their bodies were not found) and prisoners of war. By the end of 11 June (D + 5), 326,547 troops, 54,186 vehicles and 104,428 tons of supplies had been landed on the beaches.Īs well as the troops who landed in Normandy on D-Day, and those in supporting roles at sea and in the air, millions more men and women in the Allied countries were involved in the Some 195,700 personnel were assigned to Operation Neptune: 52,889 US, 112,824 British, and 4,988 from other Allied countries. Operation Neptune involved huge naval forces, including 6,939 vessels: 1,213 naval combat ships, 4,126 landing ships and landing craft, 736 ancillary craft and 864 merchant vessels. In the airborne landings on both flanks of the beaches, 2,395 aircraft and 867 gliders of the RAF and USAAF were used on D-Day. On D-Day, Allied aircraft flew 14,674 sorties, and 127 were lost. 11,590 aircraft were available to support the landings. In the British and Canadian sector, 83,115 troops were landed (61,715 of them British): 24,970 on Gold Beach, 21,400 on Juno Beach, 28,845 on Sword Beach, and 7900 airborne troops. The American forces landed numbered 73,000: 23,250 on Utah Beach, 34,250 on Omaha Beach, and 15,500 airborne troops. On D-Day, the Allies landed around 156,000 troops in Normandy.
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