What is even more of a shame is the way the fighting in Italy by Allied forces has drifted off in obscurity, partly because Rome fell two days before D-Day.

To put it in perspective, the Americans lost nearly a thousand men---946?---in a training "friendly fire" tragedy in Devon before D-Day.

That's more than they lost on Utah. And 16,000 casualties trying to break through the Winter Line in Italy.

Check it out. Relying on memory.