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Allied casualties on the first day were at least 10,000, with 4,414 confirmed dead [13] and the Germans had 4,000–9,000 casualties (killed, wounded, missing, or captured). [15] The Germans never achieved Hitler's stated aim of "throwing the Allies back into the sea" on D-Day or at any time thereafter.
D-Day casualties for the airborne divisions were calculated in August 1944 as 1,240 for the 101st Airborne Division and 1,259 for the 82nd Airborne. Of those, the 101st suffered 182 killed, 557 wounded, and 501 missing. For the 82nd, the total was 156 killed, 347 wounded, and 756 missing. [16]
Allied casualties on the first day were at least 10,000, with 4,414 confirmed dead. [162] The Germans lost 1,000 men. [ 163 ] The Allied invasion plans had called for the capture of Carentan, St. Lô , Caen, and Bayeux on the first day, with all the beaches (other than Utah), linked with a front line 10 to 16 kilometres (6 to 10 mi) from the ...
More than 10,000 Allied casualties on D-Day. 5:35 a.m.: German batteries begin firing on fleet. Allied ships return fire and bombard coastal defenses. 6:30 a.m.: ...
How D-Day progressed on the five beaches: Utah: Assaulted by U.S. forces. This beach saw the fewest Allied casualties: 197 troops killed or wounded among 23,000 that land. Omaha: The longest, most heavily defended and bloodiest beach. U.S. forces suffer 2,400 casualties but still land 34,000 troops by nightfall.
Allied casualties in the Normandy campaign were also appalling, with 73,000 troops killed and 153,000 wounded. Allied bombing was aimed at stopping Hitler from sending reinforcements and at prying his troops out of the “Atlantic Wall” of coastal defenses and other strongpoints that German occupation forces had built with forced labor.
At the close of D-Day, Allied forces had only captured about half of the planned area and contingents of German defenders remained, but the beachhead was secure. The 4th Infantry Division landed 21,000 troops on Utah at the cost of only 197 casualties.
On June 6, 1944, the largest seaborne invasion in history took place as Allied forces stormed the ... know as "D-Day" -- began in 1943. ... led by future President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Casualties ...