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D-Day

Approximate Casualties of the Allied Armies by Sectors, Normandy, June 6 1944

NATION / SECTOR :: ESTIMATED CASUALTIES

U.S. AIRBORNE :: 2,499
U.S. / UTAH :: 197
U.S. / OMAHA :: 2,000
U.K. / GOLD :: 413
CAN. / JUNO :: 1,204
U.K. / SWORD :: 630
U.K. AIRBORNE :: 1,500

CONSERVATIVE ESTIMATE :: 8,443
REASONABLE GUESS :: 9,000 total (of which 3,000 may have been fatalities)

Source: Colonel C.P. Stacey, The Victory Campaign (Official History of the Canadian Army in the Second World War, Volume III).

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