"The last day of World War I saw Allied forces take more casualties than would be taken on D-Day in 1944. As Persico explains, "According to the most conservative estimates, during the last day of the war, principally in the six hours after the armistice was signed, all sides on the Western front suffered 10,944 casualties, of which 2,738 were deaths"
I thought that there were 10,000 Allied deaths in the first hour of D-Day. Can anyone with historical knowledge confirm or deny this for me?