D-Day

Operation Overlord

• June 6, 1944• Normandy, France• Led by Supreme Allied

Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower

• Is the largest amphibious invasion in world history

101st Airborne

101st suffered 182 killed, 557 wounded, and 501 missing equaled 1240 casualties out of 6,600 troops involved.

Allies

• 156,000 troops from 9 different countries

• 73,000 from the United States

• About 12,000 casualties

• 6600 from the United States

By the Numbers

• 6,939 vessels: 1,213 warships, 4,126 transport vessels, and 736 ancillary craft and 864 merchant vessels.

• 11,590 aircraft-13,000 tons of bombs-14,000 sorties

British Sector American Sector

Gold 24,970 Utah 23,250

Juno 21,400 Omaha 34,250

Sword 28,845 —

Total 75,214 Total 57,500

War Memorial

• 9,387 U.S. Soldiers buried here that died between 1941-1945

• Notable Burials include Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. & Quentin Roosevelt.

War Memorial