CNN —June 6, 2024 marks 80 years since D-Day, the first day of the Normandy landings that laid the foundations for the Allied defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II.
The Allied troops’ invasion was coordinated across air, land and sea, in what can be described as amphibious landings.
On D-Day alone, around 4,440 Allied troops were confirmed dead, according to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC), with more than 5,800 troops wounded or missing.
Because Omaha Beach was the bloodiest landing beach, the US Army lost the most men in the amphibious landings.
Within minutes of reaching Omaha Beach, 16 of these men were killed and four were wounded.
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