D-Day Allied dead
Thousands.
D-Day dead in the thousands; campaign casualties in the hundreds of thousands; French civilian dead a necessary third column.
Canadian infantry at Juno and in Caen paid a national-scale bill for a small population.
Bands
Normandy campaign military
Hundreds of thousands of casualties, both sides.
French civilians
Tens of thousands in the campaign zone in published work.
Canadian share
High for population size.
German losses in Falaise
Men and equipment wrecked, not all captured.
Regions
Calvados / beaches
The sacred strip.
Caen plain
The British-Canadian grind.
Cotentin / Cherbourg
The port prize.
Falaise country
The August pocket.
England south coast
The camp of origin.
Paris
The political curtain.
Key numbers
D-Day6 Jun 1944
Beaches5
Paris25 Aug 1944
CommandEisenhower
Makers
US/UK shipyards
Craft as industry.
SHAEF staff
The planning maker.
French Resistance
Rail and intel as a force.
German Todt / Wall
The fortification industry.
Cemetery commissions
The memory makers.
Caen Memorial
A museum that tries to be more than a beach.
Norman towns rebuilt in the 1950s are a cost landscape.
The cemeteries are the English-language cost made visible -- and they under-show German and French civilian graves.