The average age of a soldier was 22-year-old; college-aged men who stormed the beaches of Germany under heavy fire, witnessing absolute hell as they pushed forward.
Over 425,000 Allied and German troops were killed, wounded, or went missing during the battle. This includes over 209,000 Allied casualties, with nearly 37,000 dead among the ground forces and additional 16,714 deaths among the Allied air forces.
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