where did you get this info?
this is from the D-day museum in the UK
D-Day Museum and Overlord Embroidery
"Over 425,000 Allied and German troops were killed, wounded or went missing during the Battle of Normandy. This figure includes over 209,000 Allied casualties, with nearly 37,000 dead amongst the ground forces and a further 16,714 deaths amongst the Allied air forces. Of the Allied casualties, 83,045 were from 21st Army Group (British, Canadian and Polish ground forces), 125,847 from the US ground forces. The losses of the German forces during the Battle of Normandy can only be estimated. Roughly 200,000 German troops were killed or wounded. The Allies also captured 200,000 prisoners of war (not included in the 425,000 total, above). During the fighting around the Falaise Pocket (August 1944) alone, the Germans suffered losses of around 90,000, including prisoners. During the battle, between 15,000 and 20,000 French civilians were killed, mainly as a result of Allied bombing. Thousands more fled their homes to escape the fighting.
Today, twenty-seven war cemeteries hold the remains of over 110,000 dead from both sides: 77,866 German, 9,386 American, 17,769 British, 5,002 Canadian and 650 Poles. The bodies of many American casualties were repatriated to the USA, where they were reburied
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Originally Posted by CyberSEO
Hollywood did a good job as usually. Actually 99% of what people know about the USA, they know from the US movies and that's a totally fake information which has nothing in common with the reality.
Every WWII movie shows the Omaha beach invasion like the greatest battle ever which fully destroyed Nazis. This is a standard picture from the US movies. In fact only 3,000 allied and 1,200 Germans were killed in that "epic battle". Great success, yeah 
Now compare it for example with Kursk Battle: 1,129,619 Soviets and 1,500,000 Germans killed (don't even mention tanks, aircrafts, artillery etc). |