On the 80th anniversary of D-Day, Sky News looks at some of the notable figures from 6 June 1944.
156,115 – Allied soldiers landed on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day.
50,000 – The approximate number of German forces the Allies faced.
4,415 – Allied troops were killed on D-Day itself. This included 2,501 From the USA, 1,449 from UK, 391 Canadians and 73 from other Allied countries.
5,000 – An estimate of the number of injured Allied soldiers.
4,000-9,000 – Germans killed, injured or missing during the D-Day invasion, according to historians’ estimates. The exact number of German victims is not known.
5 – the beaches were chosen for the operation and given code names: Gold and Sword, to be attacked by British forces, Juno, to be landed by Canadian forces, and Omaha and Utah, to be attacked by American forces.
11,590 – Allied aircraft supported the landings. They flew 14,674 sorties and 127 aircraft were lost.
6,939 – Vessels involved in Operation Neptune, codename of the naval operation. This included 1,213 naval combat ships, 4,126 landing ships and landing craft, 736 auxiliary vessels and 864 merchant ships.
326,000 – Troops landed on the beaches a few days before D-Day, along with more than 50,000 vehicles and about 100,000 tons of equipment.
1.5 million – US soldiers arrived in England in 1943 and the first half of 1944, before the invasion.
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