re: Would you rather have gone “over the top” in WWI or been on the first wave on D-Day?

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Estimated that 27,000 French soldiers were killed on August 22, 1914

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And let’s not forget on the FIRST DAY of the Battle of the Somme, the British suffered 57,000 casualties, including jsut shy of 20,000 killed. And that battle raged from July 1 to Nov. 1. By the time it was over almost half a million British soldiers would become causalties. The French (who were losing about a half million at Verdin AT THE SAME TIME) lost 200,000 on the Somme as well. The Germans lost about a half a million on the Somme while also losing almost 400,000 at Verdun.

And this was 1916. The war was already two years in with almost another two years to go.