The Allied casualties figures for D-Day have generally been estimated at 10,000, including 2,500 dead. Broken down by nationality, the usual D-Day casualty figures are approximately 2,700 British, 946 Canadians, and 6,603 Americans. The US National D-Day Memorial Foundation has recently achieved a more accurate figure, they have so far verified 2,499 American D-Day fatalities and 1,914 from the other Allied nations, for a total of 4,413 dead.

Above: Soldiers of the Allied Expeditionnary Corps stand sentry on a beach of Normandy in Northern France during the June 1944 operations after D-Day.