Utah Beach was one of the two American landing zones on D-Day, June 6, 1944. Situated on the Cotentin Peninsula, it was the ...

Outside Utah Beach, U.S. Navy Rear Admiral Morton Deyo ... Nevada was more important than Pearl Harbor in Hawaii and the D-Day landing in France. “That (state) is where the soul of the ship ...

At 6:30 a.m., they were heading across the English Channel toward Omaha and Utah beaches. Related: D-Day 80th anniversary: Sgt. Walt Ehlers description of the landing at Omaha Beach Flying low ...

The Americans would assault two beaches in the West code named Omaha and Utah. But the beaches ... give their account of the D-Day landings on Sword Beach; the first step towards defeating Nazi ...