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“The Allied victory in Northwest Europe...will lead to the end of the German military domination of France; it is the
beginning of the end of the war.” – Part of a directive issued by General Bernard Montgomery, Aug. 20, 1944
65 TH ANNIVERS ARY OF THE NORMANDY INVASION
THE LANDING BEACHES
BY THE NUMBERS
Numbers can be interesting, but they don’t tell the
whole story. To get that, it is best to read the various
histories or, better yet, talk to those who were there during that Normandy summer 65 years ago. We
present the following for quick reference, noting that in some cases the numbers are approximations.
FÉCAMP
OMAHA
1ST US DIVISION
29TH US DIVISION
JUNO
VALOGNES
GOLD
50TH BRITISH DIVISION
GRANDCAMP
MAISY
ST. LAURENT
CARENTAN
AY
DR
E
OM
COURSEULLESSUR-MER
ODO
6TH BRITISH
AIRBORNE DIVISION
M
N
UA
CE
L
O
AIS
N
ORN
E
VIRE
SWIT.
FALAISE
FALAISE POCKET
(16-21 AUGUST, 1944)
ATLANTIC OCEAN
MEDITERRANEAN SEA
ARGENTAN
SÉE
ITALY
S É LU
NE
V
E
AR
NN
E
0
10
LISIEUX
Utah (US), Omaha (US), Gold (Brit.), Juno
(Cdn.) and Sword (Brit.)
10
Panzer or panzer-grenadier (armoured
infantry) divisions in the West by D-Day.
Six were considered battle-ready
of bombs dropped by
6,000 Tonnage
the RAF Bomber Command in
the final hours prior to the invasion
ES
GERMANY
LUX.
FRANCE
PONT
L’ÉVÊQUE
CAEN
N
VILLERS-BOCAGE
PARIS
SPAIN
HOULGATE
OUISTREHAM
BELGIUM
E N G L IS H
S E IN E
DEAUVILLE
L A IZ E
CHANNEL
SWORD
3RD BRITISH DIVISION
TOUQU
SAINT-LÔ
SE UL LE S
BAYEUX
LESSAY
PÈRIERS
UNITED KINGDOM
ARROMANCHES
E
SÈV
ES
101ST US
AIRBORNE DIVISION
AUR
82ND US
AIRBORNE DIVISION
invasion beaches or sectors,
5 Allied
codenamed—from west to east—
LE HAVRE
MUE
STE. MÈRE-ÉGLISE
the Normandy beaches
3RD CANADIAN INF. DIV.
2ND CANADIAN ARMD. BDE.
20
30
KILOMETRES
ESCAPE ROUTE
OF GERMAN ARMY
TRUN
CHAMBOIS
Allied paratroopers,
including Canadians, who
jumped or landed in gliders behind German
coastal defences
invasion of occupied Northwest Europe.
OPERATION NEPTUNE Codename for the assault phase
(the Normandy landings and associated operations) of the
1944 Allied invasion of Normandy.
D-DAY Allied staff term for the unnamed day on which an
operation commences or is to commence. The letter D is a military symbol standing for the day the operation is to happen.
JUNO The Allied codename given to the Normandy beach
where Canadians landed on June 6, 1944.
landed by sea or by
155,000 Troops
air by day’s end on D-Day
including tanks,
6,000 Vehicles,
landed on D-Day
squadrons of fighters and
171 Airfighterforcebombers
that attacked the
of stores or
26,000 Tonnage
supplies required per day
to sustain Allied armies in Normandy
vessels employed in the
German soldiers squeezed
7,016 Allied
D-Day fleet commanded by
100,000
by Allied forces into the
Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay, including six
battleships, two monitors, 22 cruisers, 93
destroyers, 71 corvettes, and various types
of landing craft, numbering in the thousands
naval personnel,
195,701 Allied
including merchant
navy that supported the invasion
OPERATION OVERLORD Codename for the 1944 Allied
men landed
132,000 Allied
on D-Day
Luftwaffe or ground positions
23,400
VIE
4TH US DIVISION
of Allied
minesweepers deployed to
06/06/44 Date
Normandy Landings
247 Allied
‘sweep’ 10 approach channels to
ES
UTAH
DIV
CHERBOURG
For a bird’s eye view of Juno Beach on the morning of June 6, 1944,
please see our illustrated pullout poster in the centre of the magazine.
For a timeline on the Normandy Campaign, please visit
Legion Magazine’s website at www.legionmagazine.com
Falaise pocket, an area that measured 30 kilometres long by 20 wide on Aug. 16, 1944
casualties between
400,000 German
June and late August 1944
casualties between
206,000 Allied
June and late August 1944
Sources: Bloody Victory: Canadians and the D-Day Campaign 1944 by
J.L. Granatstein and Desmond Morton; D-Day: The Illustrated History by
Stephen Badsey; Juno: Canadians At D-Day, June 6, 1944 by Ted Barris;
Legion Magazine; Normandy 1944: The Canadian Summer by Bill
McAndrew, Donald E. Graves and Michael Whitby; Oxford Companion
To World War II; The Victory Campaign: The Operations In North-West
Europe, 1944-1945 by C.P. Stacey; Veterans Affairs Canada.