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The Allied casualties figures for D-Day have generally been estimated at 10,000, including 2500 dead. Broken down by nationality, the usual D-Day casualty figures are approximately 2700 British, 946 Canadians, and 6603 Americans. However recent painstaking research by the US National D-Day Memorial Foundation has achieved a more accurate - and much higher - figure for the Allied personnel who were killed on D-Day. They have recorded the names of individual Allied personnel killed on 6 June 1944 in Operation Overlord, and so far they have verified 2499 American D-Day fatalities and 1915 from the other Allied nations, a total of 4414 dead (much higher than the traditional figure of 2500 dead).

Read the whole paragraph. The 1500 (American KIA) figure has been used and accepted for decades but they are now making a major effort at getting a more accurate count and it has resulted in the higher American KIA numbers. It is a very poorly written piece and I had to sort it out also. Most prose dealing with these numbers is confusing. I have used the 1500 number for years and found it to be suspiciously low when contrasted with the eyewitness accounts.

Now, if you really want to see some conflicting numbers try to find out how many Japanese were killed by, or later died from, the atomic bombs.