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......
All in one day.....
But some of the whiners will say that this is not a real war. The people who protest at Freedom Corner of my park (which was built by American Legion) say we have no business interfering in another country.
I say, if being attacked and having three thousand innocent persons (not military) killed is not just reason for war...then they will never have a reason....just excuses.