Denied a hero's death: How more Allied troops died during live-fire D-Day training in Britain than those killed storming the beaches of Normandy on June 6 - Daily Mail

Denied a hero's death: How more Allied troops died during live-fire D-Day training in Britain than those killed storming the beaches of Normandy on June 6  Daily Mail

The number of Allied troops who died during training for the D-Day landings outnumbers those that perished during the fateful final landings, a fascinating new book reveals. The June 6 1944 operation was the most ambitious military endeavour of the Second World War, with hundreds of boats assembling off the coast of Normandy, carrying men from every corner of Britain, America, the Commonwealth and beyond. Thousands of them would be dead by nightfall. The objective was to shatter Hitler's formidable Atlantikwall defence and open a Western Front in the battle for Europe to drive back the N...

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