Paru le 20/08/2019 | Broché 127 pages
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English translation Heather Inglis
The battle on Omaha Beach is at the forefront of the collective memory for its tragic hours on the 6th of June 1944. The Utah Beach sector, located at the base of the Cotentin peninsula, has always been the subject of lesser attention. Wrongly so, for, according to General Eisenhower himself, the mission entrusted to Force U was the most complex one to be engaged on D-Day, due to the beach's distance from the other landing zones and the presence of several German divisions.
Along with the 4th Infantry Division, the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions engaged in bitter combat in the sector. Its toll of losses, totalling some 3,500 men, illustrates how much Utah deserves further enlightenment.
Christophe Prime is a historian specialising in World War II. He is also in charge of collections at the Mémorial de Caen. He regularly writes for historic magazines and contributes towards the production of documentaries. He has published a number of reference works on the subject, including : La Bataille du Cotentin and Omaha Beach published by Editions Tallandier, Arromanches - the artificial harbours and Allied logistics and Traces de Guerre, Normandie 1944 by Editions OREP.
