D-Day by the numbers.

• Position: Graph Exercise

D-Day, June 6, 1944, marked one of the greatest military invasions in history. For nearly five years, Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany had ruled almost all of Europe, killing millions of people in the process. Now, the tide was turning. In a massive, secret mission named Operation Overlord, troops from the U.S., Britain, Canada, and other Allied countries joined to attack the German stronghold in France. Some 73,000 Americans stormed the beaches of Normandy on D-Day; thousands more supported them in thousands of ships and planes.

By the end of the day, the Germans had been pushed back in many places as Hitler withheld some of his best troops, believing D-Day to be a diversion from the real invasion. But as these graphs show, the Allies paid a heavy price. Thousands died on the beaches. Use the data in the graphs to answer the questions below.

1. "D-Day: The Great Invasion" reports that some 73,000 Americans landed on or near the German controlled beaches of Normandy, France, on June 6, 1944. About how many more Americans took part in the D-Day operation?

   (a) 10,000 (b) 22,000 (c) 15,000 (d) 30,000

2. What is the total combined D-Day force of British and Canadian troops?

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3. What is the difference between the number of German forces who took part in D-Day fighting and the number of British forces who took part in the D-Day fighting?

   (a) 35,000 (b) 45,000 (c) 40,000 (d) 30,000

4. The term "casualties" includes the number...