WWII: total number of casualties during D-Day 1944, by army and area

During D-Day, the first day of the Allied invasion of Normandy during the Second World War, both the Allies and the Germans suffered a similar number of casualties at approximately 10,000 per side. In relative terms, the casualty count was much higher among the Germans, where it accounted for over 18 percent of the defensive force. For the Allies, the heavy resistance faced by the Americans at Omaha Beach accounted for over one third of all casualties on the day, and this was equal to around 11 percent of the force that landed on the beach that day. In contrast, the Americans who landed at Utah beach suffered the fewest casualties in both absolute terms and as a share of the total landing force.