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- Oct 1, 2006
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70 years ago tomorrow. Some of the statistics for the invasion are staggering:
Incredible that this happened within living memory.
- 156,000 troops crossed over on 6th June 1944
- Troops from United Kingdom, Canada, US, Australia, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, France, Greece, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway and Poland.
- 11,590 aircraft were available to support the landings. On D-Day, 14,674 sorties flew and 127 were lost.
- 5 days later 326,547 troops, 54,186 vehicles and 104,428 tons of supplies had been landed on the beaches.
- 12,000 men and over 2,000 aircraft were lost in the two months prior to June 1944 in the struggle to get things ready for D-Day.
- 24 allied warships sunk
- 425,000 German and Allied troops killed or MIA
- Between 15 and 20,000 French civilians killed
Incredible that this happened within living memory.