d-day
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D-Day
Operation Overlord
• June 6, 1944• Normandy, France• Led by Supreme Allied
Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower
• Is the largest amphibious invasion in world history
101st Airborne
101st suffered 182 killed, 557 wounded, and 501 missing equaled 1240 casualties out of 6,600 troops involved.
Allies
• 156,000 troops from 9 different countries
• 73,000 from the United States
• About 12,000 casualties
• 6600 from the United States
By the Numbers
• 6,939 vessels: 1,213 warships, 4,126 transport vessels, and 736 ancillary craft and 864 merchant vessels.
• 11,590 aircraft-13,000 tons of bombs-14,000 sorties
British Sector American Sector
Gold 24,970 Utah 23,250
Juno 21,400 Omaha 34,250
Sword 28,845 —
Total 75,214 Total 57,500
War Memorial
• 9,387 U.S. Soldiers buried here that died between 1941-1945
• Notable Burials include Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. & Quentin Roosevelt.
War Memorial
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