Comments by "Andy Dee" (@AndyViant) on "The 'Other' Beaches of D-Day: How Hard-Fought u0026 Important they Truly Were" video.

Just worth pointing out the massive scale of "Hollywoodisation" of history. Omaha Beach is believed to have cost around 6,000 lives in a day. Let's just compare that to some other non American, and thus, non Hollywood, history. The British lost 20,000 lives in the Battle of the Somme within a few hours on 1 July 1916. Overall casualties for the Battle of the Somme were over 1 million across 141 days. Imagine the carnage of Omaha for 141 days straight. The French lost over 27,000 at Frontiers on 22nd August 1914. But I guess they don't count, because to Americans WW1 hadn't started yet. In fact such slaughter isn't even new. At Waterloo, the French lost over 25,000 lives in a single day. At Borodino the Russians took 45,000 casualties in a single day. But you don't even need firearms to create this much destruction. The greatest death toll for a single day in the English War of the Roses was 27,000. But what's widely considered the most deaths in a single day's battle was the Battle of Cannae in the Second Punic War, when close to 90,000 Roman soldiers were slaughtered by the Carthaginians. With swords and spears.
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@chong2389 not necessarily. Many of the dominion/commonwealth counts for killed and wounded are recorded separately, and it would only be those actually serving in the British armed forces who got bundled in with British data..
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