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  Normally quoted is the figure of 2,500 Allied deaths on the first day - later research suggests that the number was over half as many again.
  
  There are a lot of people across the Atlantic who lost someone in a far-away war. Many have, over the years, been able to come across to pay their respects; those who look back to Dover as their Old Country home also choose to record respects through the Dover War Memorial Project. Equally, we have Dovorians who returned to their new countries, to die there from their wounds.
  
  In Dover itself, while the Allies were sweeping up the coast, the last desperate raids on our Frontline Town intensified. Over a fifth of our civilian casualties died in that one last month of September 1944, when the enemy guns across the Channel were finally silenced.
  
  We have so much to be thankful for, and must never forget our debt to those whose brave hearts were so early stilled.

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