HISTORY
WORLD WAR II
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Detailed explanation-1: -The invasion force included 7, 000 ships and landing craft manned by over 195, 000 naval personnel from eight allied countries. Almost 133, 000 troops from the United States, the British Commonwealth, and their allies, landed on D-Day. Casualties from these countries during the landing numbered 10, 300.
Detailed explanation-2: -Out of the more than 16 million Americans who served, 2 million served in Europe, though the war against the Nazis has an outsized place in the American imagination. That number of enlistees is remarkable.
Detailed explanation-3: -Barbarossa was the largest military ground invasion in history, with some 3.8 million troops, thousands of tanks and aircraft, and more than half a million horses advancing across the entirety of Eastern Europe, from the Gulf of Finland to the Black Sea.
Detailed explanation-4: -By the time it concluded on the deck of an American warship on September 2, 1945, World War II had claimed the lives of an estimated 60-80 million people, approximately 3 percent of the world’s population.
Detailed explanation-5: -Operation Overlord Statistics The British and Canadians put 75, 215 British and Canadian troops ashore. Americans: 57, 500. Total:132, 715. 3, 400 were killed or missing.