By the 1944, the Germans were taking over cities like they are taking candy from baby. Any offensive that came against them they destroyed. Germany was building its country in size and it could make allies lose. So, The Allies needed to stop Germans fast. They decided the only way to successfully conquer the Germans was to make a mass invasion across the English Channel. Bernard Law Montgomery was appointed the Allied invasion commander. He proposed …showed first 75 words of 993 total…

…showed last 75 words of 993 total…the US ground forces. The losses of the German forces during the Battle of Normandy can only be estimated. Roughly 200,000 German troops were killed or wounded. The Allies also captured 200,000 prisoners of war (not included in the 425,000 total, above). During the fighting around the Falaise Pocket (August 1944) alone, the Germans suffered losses of around 90,000, including prisoners. Today, twenty-seven war cemeteries hold the remains of over 110,000 dead from both sides: 77,866 German, 9386 American, 17,769 British, 5002 Canadian and 650 Poles.