Very few Aussies actually fought on the beaches, however, over 11,000 were there in the RAF and in many RAAF squadrons operational over the beaches. -There were also over 3,000 New Zealand aircrew there.
Because many Aussies fought and died in it.
2000
how many miles from Calais to Utah Beach Normandy
150,000 people 150,000 people
D day aka: Operation Overlord was the awesome invasion of the 5 beaches of Normandy Sword Beach (British), Juno Beach (Canadian), Gold Beach (British), Omaha Beach (American), Utah Beach (American) and were fought by the parenthesis. it's the first invasion to start out the war in Europe against the Nazi and many other countrys in WWI.
there were 270000000 men who fought in the battle of hastings for William of Normandy
The graves are not at the beach itself but are located in Normandy at a special graveyard. There are close to 40,000 graves the last I heard. I could be wrong because some families have transferred their loved ones to their own nation.
The Allies had about 155,000 men and the Germans had about 380,000 (by July 23,1944).
8000 aussies go to Korea over past year
Over 170,000 men survived the beach landings, Glider landings and parachuting in.
More then 600
Normandy Beach was divided up into five or six different landing sites. The longest one to take was Omaha Beach. It took them 9 hours and many casualties occurred during those hours. The other beaches the Americans landed on were easier and quick to capture. The Brits fared better with their landings.