Estonian

In History, I am especially interested in learning about past and present wars. My favorite war was WWII and my favorite battle within it was Omaha Beach otherwise known as Operation Overlord. Does anyone know the total deaths of all soldiers from the US Army and Casulties in WWII?

Toltec

I'd imagine a very simple google search would give you a hundred websites with the answer on.

Estonian

ahh ok lol, ill think of a more complex question next time

Fluffybunny

I think US casualties was somewhere around 200k. A tiny fraction of all casualties (i'm not saying that 200k is not a lot). Estimates of Russian casualties go as high as 60 million or so :O

Why is Omaha your favourite?

Lucius

Estonian,

Operation Overlord included all five invasion beaches, as well as the airborne landings. Also, all the naval and air operations. I knew a guy who landed there on D+1. He said that it was not possible to avoid stepping on the bodies of the dead. The tide had washed up the bodies of the men who had been killed in the water. It was the worst beach. Eisenhower had even contemplated abandoning it after the first few hours and just going in over the other four.

fledse

Russians have the most killed statistics without doubt.
As far as I know, the total forces deaths were more than 30 millions dead and the civilians were 20 millions dead.

And if you add the wounded, it is more than 100 millions of course.