21, A memorial cemetery sits on U.S. soil in France. Most of the 9,287 American buried in the Normandy American Cemetery were killed on D-Day or early battles fought afterwards.
22. Families fought--and died-- together. 33 sets of brothers were buried side-by-side, along with one father and son.
23. Around 14,000 corpses were returned home.
24. The Allies lost more than 11% of their numbers. (226,386 casualties. 72,911 killed or missing and 153,475 wounded)
25. German casualties exceeded 240,000. The Allies also captured 200,000 German prisoners.
26. The action was far from consistent. In some places there were almost no casualties while in others almost 96%.
27. The tide was a double-edged sword. Landing at low tide avoided the German obstacles but meant troops were exposed to fire for longer to cross the beaches. Also, as the tide came in, wounded drowned.
28. The beach was a minefield. It is estimated that the Germans had planted around four million mines on the beaches.
29. D-Day was the result of trial and error.
30. The Germans almost guessed it right.
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--GreGen
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