Utah Beach facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Utah Beach
Part of Normandy landings
U.S. soldiers landing on Utah
Date June 6, 1944 Location Pouppeville, La Madeleine, Manche, France Result Allied victory
Belligerents
United States  United Kingdom	Germany
Commanders and leaders
Raymond O. Barton J. Lawton Collins Theodore Roosevelt Jr.	Karl-Wilhelm von Schlieben
Units involved
VII Corps Beach 4th Infantry Division 90th Infantry Division 4th Cavalry Regiment Air drops 82nd Airborne Division 101st Airborne Division	LXXXIV Corps 91st Infantry Division 919th Gren. Regiment Two Battalions
Strength
4th Infantry Division: 21,000 Airborne: 14,000	12,320
Casualties and losses
4th Infantry Division: 197 Airborne: ~2,499 Other units: ~700	Unknown

Utah Beach was a codename for one of the five landing beaches in Operation Overlord (D-Day, or the Invasion of Normandy). Utah Beach was landed on by American Rangers, on June 6, 1944, where they breached German defenses. The battle site is located in Normandy, France.

Images for kids

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  Map of D-Day beaches with Utah to the left

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  Utah landings, planned (center/right) and actual (left). North: lower right

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  German prisoners of war in an enclosure on Utah.

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  Gliders are delivered to the Cotentin Peninsula during Mission Elmira.

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  Members of the 101st Airborne Division in the village of St. Marcouf, June 8, 1944

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  Plan for US 4th Infantry Division on D-Day

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  Positions at close of D-Day. Brown color: beach.

See also

In Spanish: Playa de Utah para niños