Utah beach was the most westerly of the five landing
sites. The beach has a relatively flat terrain that assisted the
Americans, however their problems began when they entered the
countryside. The farm land is dominated by narrow lanes, small
paddocks with hedgerows that made fighting extremely difficult.
Furthermore the Germans had flooded much of the low lying land behind
the beaches creating large swampy areas. Several of the paratroopers,
which landed behind the German front line, drowned in the flooded.
Some of the images we captured include:
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| This picture illustrates the difficulties faced by the American soldiers - narrow lanes flanked by hedgerows. |
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| A sixteen year old soldier steering this landing craft was killed on D Day |
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