[Conservababe]

Promotions in the battlefield, of necessity, is hard for some young folks to understand, I suppose.

[westmex]

I'm sort of looking around for D-Day in Normandy figures...I think way more were lost there in one day than have been lost total in this war.....

.....Westy......

[westmex]

Approximate Casualties of the Allied Armies by Sectors, Normandy, 6 June 1944

NATION /

SECTOR

ESTIMATED CASUALTIES

U.S. AIRBORNE 2,499

U.S. / UTAH 197

U.S. / OMAHA 2,000

CAN. / JUNO 1,204

U.K. / SWORD 630

U.K. AIRBORNE 1,500

CONSERVATIVE ESTIMATE

8,443

REASONABLE

GUESS 9,000 total (of which 3,000 may have been fatalities

.......Westy......