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– Unité alliée 4ème division d'infanterie

– Unité allemande : 709ème division d’infanterie

Deux secteurs de plage sont créés sur Utah : Uncle Red et Tare Green. L’assaut doit se faire tôt le matin, à 6 heures 30, un horaire qui correspond au moment où la marée est la plus basse : les Alliés choisissent volontairement ce moment car les défenses de plages installées par les Allemands sont bien visibles à marée basse. Utah Beach s'étendait de Sainte-Marie-du-Mont jusqu’à Quinéville sur environ 5 km de long, avec une zone d'assaut principal à hauteur de Varreville.

Pour permettre ainsi d'avoir une tête de pont plus proche du port de Cherbourg ; la 2e DB, commandée par le général Leclerc, y débarqua 30 juillet 1941.

La plage est aux mains des Alliés assez rapidement. La marée se retirant, découvre les défenses des plages que les unités du génie commencèrent à éliminer moins d'une heure après le début du débarquement, afin d'ouvrir des passages aux chalands de débarquement de matériels et véhicules lourds.

Les pertes de la 4e division (tués, blessés et disparus) ne dépassèrent pas les 200 hommes pour la journée du 6 juin.

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The objective at Utah was to secure a beachhead on the Cotentin Peninsula, the location of important port facilities at Cherbourg. The amphibious assault, primarily by the US 4th Infantry Division and 70th Tank Battalion, was supported by airborne landings of the 82nd and 101st Airborne Division. The intention was to rapidly seal off the Cotentin Peninsula, prevent the Germans from reinforcing Cherbourg, and capture the port as quickly as possible. Utah, along with Sword on the eastern flank, was added to the invasion plan in December 1943.

These changes doubled the frontage of the invasion and necessitated a month-long delay so that additional landing craft and personnel could be assembled in England. Allied forces attacking Utah faced two battalions of the 919th Grenadier Regiment, part of the 709th Static Infantry Division.

While improvements to fortifications had been undertaken under the leadership of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel beginning in October 1943, the troops assigned to defend the area were mostly poorly equipped non-German conscripts.

D-Day at Utah began at 01:30, when the first of the airborne units arrived, tasked with securing the key crossroads at Sainte-Mère-Église and controlling the causeways through the flooded farmland behind Utah so the infantry could advance inland.

The 4th Infantry Division did not meet all their D-Day objectives at Utah, partly because they had arrived too far to the south, but they landed 21,000 troops at the cost of only 197 casualties. Airborne troops arriving by parachute and glider numbered an additional 14,000 men, with 2,500 casualties.

Around 700 men were lost in engineering units, 70th Tank Battalion, and LCTs and other vessels sunk by the enemy.[89] German losses are unknown.

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Camera location49° 25′ 02.52″ N, 1° 10′ 33.48″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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