D-Day deaths and casualties

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It is estimated that Allied casualties on D-Day totalled around 10,000, including 2,500 dead. German casualties are thought to have been between 4,000 and 9,000.

According to the D-Day Museum at Portsmouth, US casualties totalled 6,603; the Canadians suffered 946 casualties, including 340 dead; and British casualties were approximately 2,700. The British suffered about 1,000 casualties on Gold Beach and a similar number on Sword Beach. The US casualties included 1,465 dead, 3,184 wounded, 1,928 missing and 26 captured, most of them at Utah Beach, where German resistance was particularly fierce.

Altogether, more than 425,000 Allied and German troops were killed, wounded or went missing during the Battle of Normandy. Allied casualties totalled around 209,000, including 37,000 dead from the ground forces and almost 17,000 from the airborne forces.

The Allied casualties included 83,045 from 21st Army Group (British, Canadian and Polish ground forces) and 125,847 from the US ground forces. Around 200,000 German troops were killed or wounded and a similar number captured. Normandy's war cemeteries contain the graves of some 110,000 soldiers, including 77,866 Germans, 9,386 Americans, 17,769 British, 5,002 Canadians and 650 Poles. Additionally, an estimated 15-20,000 French civilians were killed, mainly by Allied bombing.

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