How many people died on D-day in World War 2?
Additionally, D-Day marked only the start of the battle of Normandy, which claimed many more lives as troops fought in the region’s hedgerows over the next three months. More than 425,000 Allied and German troops were killed, wounded or went missing, the D-Day Museum says. The American Cemetery overlooking Omaha Beach holds the remains of 9,383 servicemen and four women, perhaps one of the only sure quantifiable sources to the terrible conflict’s death toll (the German cemetery itself contains 80,000 graves for German soldiers killed in the area during the battles).
