 It's just stunning to think about these numbers and what they were doing. And they all had to have food and water and guns and ammunition and the vehicles. It's just amazing. There were 59,000 U.S. soldiers who landed on the beach on June 6th. 59,000. There were 73,000 British soldiers who landed on June 6th. There were 40,000 German soldiers in the landing area attempting to defend it.