Codenamed Operation Overlord, the battle began on June 6, 1944, also known as D-Day, when some 156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France's<span> Normandy region.
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I don't think it should be taken at face value because those ways could be the main ways to earn money, but it could probably be the least reliable or successful ways. This sentence could just be a lie taken literaly in which has a hidden meaning. This could be a meaning that you might not get, in which will leave you ripped off.
How many people died or were lost
I'm not sure if you're looking for a specific answer, but I think it's when you appeal to the verdict and want another trial. That, and when the verdict is undecided. I might be forgetting something else but that's what I've known so far.