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It was unveiled on 6 June 2021, the 77th anniversary of D-Day, and it is dedicated to soldiers who died under British command during the Normandy landings. [a] The memorial records the names of 22,442 people from more than 30 countries under British command who were killed in Normandy from 6 June to 31 August 1944 . [1]
The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during the Second World War. Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day (after the military term ), it is the largest seaborne invasion in history.
In the opening maneuver of the Normandy landings, about 13,100 American paratroopers from the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions, then 3,937 glider infantrymen, were dropped in Normandy via two parachute and six glider missions. [2] The divisions were part of the U.S. VII Corps, which sought to capture Cherbourg and thus establish an allied ...
Images from events to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Normandy landings in France.
The Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial (French: Cimetière américain de Colleville-sur-Mer) is a World War II cemetery and memorial in Colleville-sur-Mer, Normandy, France, that honors American troops who died in Europe during World War II. It is located on the site of the former temporary battlefield cemetery of Saint Laurent, covers 172 ...
The Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial rests on the site of the temporary cemetery set up by the U.S. 1st Army on June 8, 1944. ... The darkness of so many deaths seems impossible on a day ...
The cost of the Normandy campaign was high for both sides. [22] Between 6 June and the end of August, the American armies suffered 124,394 casualties, of whom 20,668 were killed, [c] and 10,128 were missing. [22] Casualties within the First Canadian and Second British Armies are placed at 83,045: 15,995 killed, 57,996 wounded, and 9,054 missing.
Jerusalem War Cemetery is the smallest in Normandy containing 47 British, one Czech and one unidentified grave. La Délivrande War Cemetery contains 942 Allied soldiers' graves and 180 German graves. Ranville War Cemetery contains 2,235 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War, 97 of them unidentified. There are also 330 German graves and a ...