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On June 6, 1944 Allied forces invaded Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. The largest seaborne invasion in history, the operation began the invasion of German-occupied western Europe and contributed to an Allied victory in the war.
Above: British soldiers land in Normandy.
The Allied commander and US general Dwight D Eisenhower gives instructions to paratroopers June 6, 1944 in England at the beginning of D-Day landing operations in Normandy.
On D-Day, the Allies landed around 156,000 troops in Normandy. The American forces landed numbered 73,000: 23,250 on Utah Beach, 34,250 on Omaha Beach, and 15,500 airborne troops. 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.
Above: Canadian soldiers from 9th Brigade land with their bicycles at Juno Beach in Bernieres-sur-Mer.
11,590 aircraft were available to support the landings. On D-Day, Allied aircraft flew 14,674 sorties, and 127 were lost. In the airborne landings on both flanks of the beaches, 2,395 aircraft and 867 gliders of the RAF and USAAF were used.
Above: A B-25 Mitchell bomber flies over the Allied invasion fleet in the English Channel.
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. Some 195,700 personnel were assigned to Operation Neptune: 52,889 US, 112,824 British, and 4,988 from other Allied countries.
Above: Canadian soldiers land on Courseulles beach in Normandy.
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.
Above: Troops from the 48th Royal Marines at Saint-Aubin-sur-mer on Juno Beach, Normandy, France, during the D-Day landings.
As well as the troops who landed in Normandy on D-Day and those in supporting roles at sea and in the air in Allied countries millions more were involved in the preparations for D-Day. They played thousands of different roles, both in the armed forces and as civilians.
Above: Allied aircrews work around C-47 transport planes at an unidentified English base shortly before D-Day. The C-47s dropped parachutists from the US 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions behind Utah Beach near Saint-Mere-Eglise 06 June 1944, during the first hours of Operation Overlord.
The Allied casualties figures for D-Day have generally been estimated at 10,000, including 2,500 dead. Broken down by nationality, the usual D-Day casualty figures are approximately 2,700 British, 946 Canadians, and 6,603 Americans. The US National D-Day Memorial Foundation has recently achieved a more accurate figure, they have so far verified 2,499 American D-Day fatalities and 1,914 from the other Allied nations, for a total of 4,413 dead.
Above: Soldiers of the Allied Expeditionnary Corps stand sentry on a beach of Normandy in Northern France during the June 1944 operations after D-Day.
Casualties on the British beaches were roughly 1,000 on Gold Beach and the same number on Sword Beach. The remainder of the British losses were amongst the airborne troops: some 600 were killed or wounded, and 600 more were missing; 100 glider pilots also became casualties. The losses of 3rd Canadian Division at Juno Beach have been given as 340 killed, 574 wounded and 47 taken prisoner.
Above: British soldiers of the RAMC (Royal Army Medical Corps) in France on D-Day.
The breakdown of US casualties was 1,465 dead, 3,184 wounded, 1,928 missing and 26 captured. Of the total US figure, 2,499 casualties were from the US airborne troops (238 of them being deaths). The casualties at Utah Beach were relatively light: 197, including 60 missing. However, the US 1st and 29th Divisions together suffered around 2,000 casualties at Omaha Beach.
Above: US jeeps and men land on the French coast.
Naval losses for June 1944 included 24 warships and 35 merchantmen or auxiliaries sunk, and a further 120 vessels damaged.
Above: Aerial view taken from a B-26 in June 1944 showing Liberty Ships, the 32 American merchant ships which were purposefully sunk off the coast of Normandy to support Allied forces. With Army gunners onboard, the ships served as both a breakwater and as offshore anti-aircraft gun platforms to protect Allied forces when they stormed the Normandy beaches.
US soldiers gather around trucks disembarking from landing crafts on June 6, 1944 after Allied forces stormed the Normandy beaches.
British paratroopers in their war paint read slogans chalked on a glider plane in June 1944, after Allied forces stormed the Normandy beaches during D-Day.
The total German casualties on D-Day are not known, but are estimated as being between 4,000 and 9,000 men.
Above: US soldiers surround a burning German tank in a Normandy village.
British soldiers move into the French countryside on D-Day
Over 425,000 Allied and German troops were killed, wounded or were missing in action during the Battle of Normandy. This figure includes over 209,000 Allied casualties, with nearly 37,000 dead amongst the ground forces and a further 16,714 deaths amongst the Allied air forces. Of the Allied casualties, 83,045 were from 21st Army Group (British, Canadian and Polish ground forces), 125,847 from the US ground forces. The losses of the German forces during the Battle of Normandy can only be estimated. Roughly 200,000 German troops were killed or wounded.
Above: Troops of the Canadian 3rd Division leave their ship with their bicycles at Juno beach along the coast of Normandy on D-Day.
British soldiers joke as they read a tourist guide about France aboard a landing craft on June 6, 1944 while Allied forces storm Normandy beaches.
An aerial view of Cherbourg Harbour on June 8, 1944 (D+2)
Fully armed and prepared British troops pass a woman war worker during a march through a village street on May 28, 1944.
People in the City of London rush to buy the first newspapers giving news of the Allied landings.
On June 6, 1944 Allied forces invaded Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. The largest seaborne invasion in history, the operation began the invasion of German-occupied western Europe and contributed to an Allied victory in the war.
Above: British soldiers land in Normandy.
The Allied commander and US general Dwight D Eisenhower gives instructions to paratroopers June 6, 1944 in England at the beginning of D-Day landing operations in Normandy.
On D-Day, the Allies landed around 156,000 troops in Normandy. The American forces landed numbered 73,000: 23,250 on Utah Beach, 34,250 on Omaha Beach, and 15,500 airborne troops. 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.
Above: Canadian soldiers from 9th Brigade land with their bicycles at Juno Beach in Bernieres-sur-Mer.
11,590 aircraft were available to support the landings. On D-Day, Allied aircraft flew 14,674 sorties, and 127 were lost. In the airborne landings on both flanks of the beaches, 2,395 aircraft and 867 gliders of the RAF and USAAF were used.
Above: A B-25 Mitchell bomber flies over the Allied invasion fleet in the English Channel.
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. Some 195,700 personnel were assigned to Operation Neptune: 52,889 US, 112,824 British, and 4,988 from other Allied countries.
Above: Canadian soldiers land on Courseulles beach in Normandy.
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.
Above: Troops from the 48th Royal Marines at Saint-Aubin-sur-mer on Juno Beach, Normandy, France, during the D-Day landings.
As well as the troops who landed in Normandy on D-Day and those in supporting roles at sea and in the air in Allied countries millions more were involved in the preparations for D-Day. They played thousands of different roles, both in the armed forces and as civilians.
Above: Allied aircrews work around C-47 transport planes at an unidentified English base shortly before D-Day. The C-47s dropped parachutists from the US 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions behind Utah Beach near Saint-Mere-Eglise 06 June 1944, during the first hours of Operation Overlord.
The Allied casualties figures for D-Day have generally been estimated at 10,000, including 2,500 dead. Broken down by nationality, the usual D-Day casualty figures are approximately 2,700 British, 946 Canadians, and 6,603 Americans. The US National D-Day Memorial Foundation has recently achieved a more accurate figure, they have so far verified 2,499 American D-Day fatalities and 1,914 from the other Allied nations, for a total of 4,413 dead.
Above: Soldiers of the Allied Expeditionnary Corps stand sentry on a beach of Normandy in Northern France during the June 1944 operations after D-Day.
Casualties on the British beaches were roughly 1,000 on Gold Beach and the same number on Sword Beach. The remainder of the British losses were amongst the airborne troops: some 600 were killed or wounded, and 600 more were missing; 100 glider pilots also became casualties. The losses of 3rd Canadian Division at Juno Beach have been given as 340 killed, 574 wounded and 47 taken prisoner.
Above: British soldiers of the RAMC (Royal Army Medical Corps) in France on D-Day.
The breakdown of US casualties was 1,465 dead, 3,184 wounded, 1,928 missing and 26 captured. Of the total US figure, 2,499 casualties were from the US airborne troops (238 of them being deaths). The casualties at Utah Beach were relatively light: 197, including 60 missing. However, the US 1st and 29th Divisions together suffered around 2,000 casualties at Omaha Beach.
Above: US jeeps and men land on the French coast.
Naval losses for June 1944 included 24 warships and 35 merchantmen or auxiliaries sunk, and a further 120 vessels damaged.
Above: Aerial view taken from a B-26 in June 1944 showing Liberty Ships, the 32 American merchant ships which were purposefully sunk off the coast of Normandy to support Allied forces. With Army gunners onboard, the ships served as both a breakwater and as offshore anti-aircraft gun platforms to protect Allied forces when they stormed the Normandy beaches.
US soldiers gather around trucks disembarking from landing crafts on June 6, 1944 after Allied forces stormed the Normandy beaches.
British paratroopers in their war paint read slogans chalked on a glider plane in June 1944, after Allied forces stormed the Normandy beaches during D-Day.
The total German casualties on D-Day are not known, but are estimated as being between 4,000 and 9,000 men.
Above: US soldiers surround a burning German tank in a Normandy village.
British soldiers move into the French countryside on D-Day
Over 425,000 Allied and German troops were killed, wounded or were missing in action during the Battle of Normandy. This figure includes over 209,000 Allied casualties, with nearly 37,000 dead amongst the ground forces and a further 16,714 deaths amongst the Allied air forces. Of the Allied casualties, 83,045 were from 21st Army Group (British, Canadian and Polish ground forces), 125,847 from the US ground forces. The losses of the German forces during the Battle of Normandy can only be estimated. Roughly 200,000 German troops were killed or wounded.
Above: Troops of the Canadian 3rd Division leave their ship with their bicycles at Juno beach along the coast of Normandy on D-Day.
British soldiers joke as they read a tourist guide about France aboard a landing craft on June 6, 1944 while Allied forces storm Normandy beaches.
An aerial view of Cherbourg Harbour on June 8, 1944 (D+2)
Fully armed and prepared British troops pass a woman war worker during a march through a village street on May 28, 1944.
People in the City of London rush to buy the first newspapers giving news of the Allied landings.
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