Nearly 100,000 soldiers (approximately 40,000 Allies and 60,000 Germans) died in Normandy during the battles in the summer of 1944.

Some of them (mainly Americans) were repatriated to their countries of origin, but by far the majority of them were buried in Norman soil, in 26 different cemeteries :
- 16 British,
- 2 Canadian,
- 2 American,
- 1 Polish,
- 1 French and
- 4 German (not counting the cemetery at Saint-André-de-l’Eure in Upper Normandy).