Utah Beach was one of the three American landings sectors on D-Day, during World War II. The other two sectors were Omaha Beach and Point du Hoc. It was five-mile wide between Pouppeville and the village of La Madeleine. Utah Beach was the right flank of the American landing beaches and the westernmost point of the Allied invasion of Normandy. The American Army 4th Infantry Division (VII Corps), under the command of General Raymont O. Barton, had the task of establishing and securing a beachhead.
The four-waves landing at Utah Beach took place at 06:30 on the morning of June 6, 1944, and was successfully carried out with relative ease due to the fact that there were fewer German fortifications than there were at Omaha. The first US unit to set foot on the beach was Company F from the 2nd Battalion (4th Infantry Division), under the command of Captain Leonard T. Schroeder. The 2nd Battalion was followed by the 1rst Battalion 15 minutes later. By the end of D-Day, around 23,000 American troops and 1,700 vehicles had safely landed on Utah Beach, suffering only 220 casualties, killed and wounded.
[...] Eisenhower, around 170,000 troops crossed the English Channel and landed on six landing sectors (Utah, Pointe du Hoc, Omaha, Gold, Juno, and Sword), securing beachheads, which allowed more than 3 [...]