D-Day Facts – Unknown Facts about D-Day

D-Day Facts

On the D-Day invasion the Allied forces had 15,766 Air craft’s.

By June 1944, the German Air Combat wing Luftwaffe was outnumbered 1:30 Allied Forces Air Craft’s.

For the preparation of D-Day the British produced 7,000,000 Jerry Cans.

During the practice landings on Slapton Sands, 946 Allied soldiers were killed by German E-boat attacks.

The Allied force sailed to the area in middle of the Channel named as Piccadilly Circus. And from there they would sail to the invasion zones.

On D-day more than 7,000 ships of all shapes and sizes were launched.

On D-Day, over 4,000 landing craft’s were used to get the Allied force soldiers onto the beaches for invasion.

The oldest Allied battleship in action on D-Day was USS Arkansas that was commissioned in 1912.

On D-Day 73,000 U.S soldiers, 61,715 British soldiers and 21,400 Canadian soldiers crossed the English Channel to reach the invasion Zones.

All American soldiers were required to take out a $10,000 life insurance policy.