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Of course they were - apart from the 177 commandos that you mention, there were no French armed forces by then.:facepalm: But those casualties would have included those Resistance fighters sabotaging railways, laying explosions, transmitting messages etc

That's totally unfair. The French played an active part in the process. "A 1965 report from the Counter-insurgency Information Analysis Center details the results of the French Resistance's sabotage efforts: "In the southeast, 52 locomotives were destroyed on 6 June and the railway line cut in...

I'm off to see a play tonight about the arguments between the meteorological teams as to the optimum time for the landings. It makes you realise how much planning had to go into it