WWII: Europe: France; "Into the Jaws of Death - U.S. Troops wading through water and Nazi gunfire". 6 June 1944, 08:30. Wikipedia
D-Day: More Americans Died In That One Day Than In All Of Iraq War -- New York Daily News
Operation Overlord cost 29,000 U.S. lives, conflict in Iraq 4,800
To get a sense of how great a sacrifice the U.S. made 68-years-ago when the Allies stormed the beaches of Normandy, consider this tragic arithmetic: That battle cost 29,000 American lives.
By contrast, a little over 4,800 U.S. soldiers were killed in combat during the entire war in Iraq.
And while most Americans now think the Iraq War was a terrible mistake, few would argue that the D-Day invasion, which helped loosen the Nazi grip on Europe, was worth it.
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WNU Editor: Wikipedia's entry on D-Day is rather good. That link is here.
3 comments:
I believe US deaths during Operation Overlord on June 6th are quite a bit lower than 29K. Various sites report it between 4 and 5 thousand.
Thank you CDR M for your comment. I have also read different casualty statistics. 29K is a lot .... but in the summer of 1944 U.S. casualties were running in the hundreds per day ... so this 29K stat is probably for the summer of 1944.
These D-Day Overlord casualty numbers come from Encyclopaedia Britannica.
http://doinghistoryproject.tripod.com/id28.html
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