Foreword: The Normandy landing was a relatively famous large-scale battle during World War II. He also has a special codename called Operation Overlord. Both the process and the number of participants were very shocking. During this operation, the allies sent nearly three million soldiers to the vicinity of the English Channel. This operation also happened to open up the battlefield on the Western Front of World War II. In many film and television works today, we can see the shadow of this war. It was indeed a relatively large-scale maritime war in the history of human warfare. So what is the truth? How many casualties did this cruel war have?

01: Back in 1942, some Allied forces in Europe planned for more than two years in order to open a second battlefield. In order to successfully implement this plan, they had to overcome some objective obstacles. conditions, such as geographical location factors. The main geographical limitation lies in the English Channel. If you want to cross the English Channel, you have to land in Calais and Normandy. Germany also knows very well that if Britain wants to reach France through the sea channel, it can only do so through this place. Therefore, when it comes to getting prepared early, such preparation also poses great difficulties for the British.

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So they chose Normandy as the second landing site. Of course, Normandy is also very heavily guarded, with many troops stationed there. Therefore, in order to successfully land, the Allied forces launched an attack from the east to the west. They created a fake corps to attack with full force, and even deliberately released false news to Germany. As expected, Germany, which was based in China, reduced its defense power in Normandy and transferred most of its military power to the Calais area. On June 6, 1944, 170,000 troops landed in Normandy. After discovering it, the German army quickly launched a defense, and the beach landing battle broke out.

03: In our ordinary perception, we may think that the heaviest casualties this time should be human beings. But statistically speaking, compared with other wars, the casualties in this war were not very serious. The Red Army's battles were mainly fought on our beaches. These five beaches are Sword Beach, Golden Beach, Jewish Beach, Juno Beach, and Omaha Beach. The number of casualties in the first four was only about 2,400. The injured were the last to be planted, but statistics found that the number of injured was only about 4,000.

It was already very tragic and bloody, but compared with the Battle of the Somme in World War I, the beach landing mission seemed too mundane. But the Normandy landings were far from over, and the land war that followed was even more brutal. After landing, they came back and deployed the troops that were originally deployed back. These German troops quickly joined the battlefield, and later the Soviet Union also joined the battlefield, and the two sides quickly began a fierce battle. Later, it became the version of the story that we are familiar with. The tragic number of casualties and the results of the war shocked us.

Conclusion: If you are interested in the history of World War II, you can read related movies and books. At that time, competition for power, money, territory, including population, and wars were endless. So this makes us cherish today's hard-won peace and prosperity even more.