skipper734
Registered ruffian
That's totally unfair. The French played an active part in the process. "A 1965 report from the Counter-insurgency Information Analysis Center details the results of the French Resistance's sabotage efforts: "In the southeast, 52 locomotives were destroyed on 6 June and the railway line cut in more than 500 places. Normandy was isolated as of 7 June." There were also Free French troops landing on the beaches
And as Buzzer pointed out, there were between 15,000 and 20,000 French casualties during the landings
The 15-20,000 were all civilian causalities, due mostly to Allied bombing. I beg your pardon, I have just reread my sauce on the French team and the was not 77 there was 177. All of this is due to Degaulle, his attitude to the British, the Americans and the Communists in his own country. He wasn't told of the invasion until the day before, he was that much of a security risk to the Allies.