Utah Beach
Utah, commonly known as Utah Beach, was the code name for one of the five sectors of the Allied invasion of German-occupied France in the Normandy landings on June 6, 1944, during World War II.Photo: W.wolny, Public domain.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Utah Beach Museum and Ancienne redoute d’Audouville.
Ancienne redoute d’Audouville
Fort
Photo: Xfigpower, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ancienne redoute d’Audouville is a fort.
Réserve naturelle nationale du domaine de Beauguillot
Nature reserve
Photo: Crochet.david, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Réserve naturelle nationale du domaine de Beauguillot is a nature reserve, which is situated 3 km south of Utah Beach.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include La Madeleine and Saint-Martin-de-Varreville.
La Madeleine
Hamlet
La Madeleine is a hamlet of Sainte-Marie-du-Mont village in North-western France which was one anchor point of the Utah Beach landings on the D-Day invasion of Hitler's Fortress Europa, 6 June 1944.
Saint-Martin-de-Varreville
Village
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Saint-Martin-de-Varreville is a commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France. Saint-Martin-de-Varreville is situated 4½ km west of Utah Beach.
Audouville-la-Hubert
Village
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Audouville-la-Hubert is a commune in the Manche department in the Normandy region in northwestern France. Audouville-la-Hubert is situated 5 km west of Utah Beach.
Utah Beach
- Type: Beach
- Description: 1944 code name for the right flank of the Allied landing beaches in Normandy
- Category: landform
- Location: Sainte-Marie-du-Mont, Arrondissement of Cherbourg, Manche, Normandy, France, Europe
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Satellite Map
Discover Utah Beach from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Western Frisian—“Utah Beach” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Utah-strand”
- Breton: “Utah Beach”
- Catalan: “Platja Utah”
- Catalan: “Utah Beach”
- Cebuano: “Utah Beach”
- Chinese: “猶他海灘”
- Czech: “Pláž Utah”
- Czech: “Utah Beach”
- Danish: “Utah Beach”
- Dutch: “Utah Beach”
- French: “Utah Beach”
- French: “Utah-Beach”
- German: “Utah Beach”
- Greek: “Παραλία Γιούτα”
- Hebrew: “חוף יוטה”
- Hungarian: “Utah Beach”
- Indonesian: “Pantai Utah”
- Italian: “Spiaggia Utah”
- Italian: “Utah Beach”
- Japanese: “ユタ・ビーチ”
- Japanese: “ユタビーチ”
- Korean: “유타 비치”
- Korean: “유타 해변”
- Latvian: “Jūtas pludmale”
- Luxembourgish: “Utah Beach”
- Marathi: “युटा बीच”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Utah Beach”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Utah Beach”
- Norwegian: “Utah Beach”
- Polish: “Plaża Utah”
- Portuguese: “Praia de Utah”
- Serbian: “Плажа Јута”
- Slovak: “Pláž Utah”
- Spanish: “Playa de Utah”
- Spanish: “Utah Beach”
- Swedish: “Utah Beach”
- Tamil: “யூடா கடற்கரை”
- Tamil: “யூட்டா கடற்கரை”
- Thai: “หาดยูทาห์”
- Ukrainian: “Плацдарм «Юта»”
- Vietnamese: “Bãi Utah”
- Western Frisian: “Utah Beach”
Localities in the Area
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