D-DAY INVASION / June 6, 1944 : THE INVASION OF NORMANDY : BY THE NUMBERS

Breakdown of 153,500-man invasion force.

U.S.: 46%

British and Canadian: 54%

Casualties: The number of American casualties on D-day compare to other massive U.S. battles (includes dead, wounded, missing or captured):

Tet Offensive (first week): 3,173

D-day (first 24 hours): 6,603

Pearl Harbor: 3,681

Chancellorsville (Civil War): 29,600

Gettysburg: 43,400

Chickamauga: 34,700

Number of troops they commanded

Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower (June 6, 1944): 2.50 million

Gen. John Pershing (Nov. 11, 1918): 1.88 million

Gen. Ulysses S. Grant (June, 1864): 0.50

Ships: More than 5,000 ships--from battleships to landing craft--carried, escorted and landed the assault force on the Normandy coast.

To Find Out More

“D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II,� Stephen Ambrose

“Crusade in Europe,� Dwight Eisenhower

“The Invasion of France and Germany,� Samuel Eliot Morison

“The Rommel Papers,� Erwin Rommel (edited by B.H. Liddell Hart)

“The Longest Day: June 6, 1944,� Cornelius Ryan

“The Longest Day: June 6, 1944,� Cornelius Ryan

“Six Armies In Normandy,� John Keegan

“Voices of D-Day: The Story of the Allied Invasion Told by Those Who Were There,� edited by Ronald J. Drez

“Assault on Normandy: First Person Accounts from the Sea Services,� edited by Paul Stillwell.

“Parachute Infantry: An American Paratrooper’s Memoir of D-Day and the Fall of the Third Reich,� David Kenyon Webster

“D-Day With The Screaming Eagles,� George E. Koskimaki

“Overlord: D-Day, June 6, 1944,� Max Hastings

“D-Day,� Warren Tute

Sources: Atlanta Journal; “D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II,� by Stephen E. Ambrose; Associated Press; “D-Day,� by Warren Tute; “The D-Day Encyclopedia�; American History magazine; U.S. Army Center of Military History; “Decision in Normandy�; Encyclopaedia Britannica.