Those casualties numbers seem so low compared to ehat Hollywood led me to believe
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Most D-Day scenes go for Omaha for the high-casualty horror of it.
7% of the force becoming casualties inside of a day - half of that in the first hour - is pretty severe.
Juno would probably get more attention for the same reason, except that it was done by Canucks, eh.
This is a lot, but the battle of Stalingrad saw about this many deaths per side, per day every day, for about half a year (numbers and duration depending how you count, but its roughly correct)
Yeah, Stalingrad was an insane meat-grinder that gets disproportionately little attention in Western media.
Also a bit more grim and depressing, one supposes. "Massive casualties against fascist invaders for months while the civilian population suffers an effective siege situation" vs. "The first strike of the final campaign to finish Nazi Germany".
awesome post. the "interesting quote" reminds me of a (not) fun fact from saving private ryan: after the beginning invasion bloodbath, the US troops come across some dudes speaking another language and shoot them, assuming they're nazis--they're actually czechs who were involuntarily conscripted after the nazis took their home, and they're pleading with the soldiers that they're not even german