I'm a big exerciser for a fat girl (hour, 5 days week). I'm scheduled for the sleeve in 3 days.
Over 425,000 Allied and German troops were killed, wounded or went missing during the Battle of Normandy. This figure includes over 209,000 Allied casualties, with nearly 37,000 dead amongst the ground forces and a further 16,714 deaths amongst the Allied air forces.
After two and a half years of being in Iraq, March 2003 through November 2005, the number of US Soliders killed in action (1501) was close to the number killed on a single day during World War II in just ONE location: Normandy on June 6, 1944.