Utah Beach
D-Day landing zone
Utah Beach was one of five beach landing zones in the Allied D-Day invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944.
Located on the western flank of the assault, it was assigned to American forces and saw lighter casualties than neighboring Omaha Beach.
The name, like the other code names, was chosen for operational security and has no connection to the U.S. state.
- NormandyNorthern French coastal region
- D-Day1944 Normandy invasion
- Operation OverlordWWII cross-channel assault codename
- World War IISecond global military conflict
- code nameSecret identifying label
Omaha · invasion · landing · landing craft · first wave · soldiers · American troops · 1944 · paratroopers · bunkers · naval bombardment · sand · assault · liberation · France · infantry · June · coastline
- D-Day Sites
- American BattlesGettysburg, Antietam, Bunker Hill, Yorktown, Lexington
- Battle SitesGettysburg, Normandy, Waterloo, Antietam, Stalingrad
- D-DayD-Day, Normandy, Operation Overlord, paratroopers, landing craft
- WWII EuropeNormandy, Operation Overlord, Battle of Britain, D-Day, Operation Barbarossa
- battlefieldsGettysburg, Waterloo, front lines, Antietam, frontline
D-Day Beach Outcomes
Utah BeachOmaha Beach
Allied invasion sector, 1944
Sword Beach · Juno Beach · Gold Beach · Dieppe · Iwo Jima