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To: Augustus Gloop who wrote (60299)	6/22/2007 2:16:50 PM
From: mph	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 90947

ddaymuseum.co.uk

To: Augustus Gloop who wrote (60299)	6/22/2007 2:18:51 PM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

I didn't just pull 40k out of thin air Nope...as usual...probably pulled it out of your a**. lol

To: Augustus Gloop who wrote (60299)	6/22/2007 2:19:23 PM
From: Alan Smithee	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

Well, here's what one source says: By the end of the of the entire Normandy Campaign, nearly 425,000 Allied and German troops were killed, wounded, or missing. I take it the "campaign" started with D-Day and ended with Germany's surrender. That figure is an order of magnitude greater than your 40,000 number.

To: Augustus Gloop who wrote (60299)	6/28/2007 10:24:42 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 90947

Maybe 40K wasn't the total on D-Day, but the total at some particular point. The Wikipedia article is about the campaign not the 1st day. It assigns the fall of Paris on August 25, 1944 as the end of the campaign, although other dates could be picked (from consolidation and link up of the beacheads, to the fall of Germany), and shows 40K American and British combined KIA (plus 5,000 Canadians for 45K (not including civilians or Germans, or the smaller totals for other allied forces) en.wikipedia.org