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Someone posted a first hand account of the landing at Utah Beach. It is interesting reading (see, http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Utah_Beach&oldid=14530649) but it doesn't really fit in an encyclopedia article. Maybe try wikisource, if the copyright status can be ascertained. Ydorb 14:47, Jun 1, 2005 (UTC)
A generic "catch all" reference is unacceptable. Mojodaddy 21:32, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
The D-Day section reads like it was written by a 5th grader and I'm too lazy to fix it. Mojodaddy 21:32, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
Is there anything that makes this song notable? I find no wp:rs sources that establish it as wp:notable.--Work permit (talk) 01:31, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
No citations, I deleted it--Work permit (talk) 07:14, 19 August 2009 (UTC)
The estimate of 40% losses for the 101st seems high. Are we sure that number isn't referring to the reduction in "effective strength" due to the highly scattered formations? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sjk81 (talk • contribs) 16:17, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
“Some 20 minutes after the first waves, British Royal Marine Commandos from 30 Commando Assault Unit, under the command of Captain G. Pike, landed at the beach. Their mission being the capture of a German radar station at Douvres-la-Delivrande”: this seems very unlikely as Douvres-la-Delivrande was located between the Sword and Juno sectors, at about 80km from Utah Beach. <http://www.normandie44lamemoire.com/versionanglaise/fichesvillesus/douvresus2.html>
ScarletteSca (talk) 13:04, 22 May 2013 (UTC)ScarletteSca
Reviewer: Jonas Vinther (talk · contribs) 21:19, 16 October 2014 (UTC)
The article is perfectly written with no sentence or grammar errors, but here is a list of suggestions for improvements.
This subject came up on the Omaha Beach talk page, but it's not appropriate there so I'll continue the conversation here... The reference http://scholars.wlu.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1132&context=cmh, e.g., page 3: "The one thing that remained in common was that they [31st Canadian Mine sweeping Flotilla] were all attached to the western Task Force so would be leading the way into the American beaches Utah and Omaha. " has been offered as a source for the statement that the Canadian navy (specifically minesweepers) were part of the naval component at Utah Beach. However, the quote above is I think slightly misleading. The 31st was indeed part of the Western Task Force which was (the Task Force I mean) tasked with supporting the American landings at Omaha and Utah, and the minesweepers would I imagine have led the way on the approaches to Normandy, but as the next section makes clear, the 31st's duties were to "...sweep Approach Channel 3 into Omaha Beach." The rest of the article covers the work the flotilla did at Omaha, and Utah is never again mentioned. http://www.mcdoa.org.uk/Operation_Neptune_Minesweeping.htm gives some more information about the minesweeping operation, and in the planning section we can see a map of the channels, with the third clearly heading to Omaha. Furthermore, all of the sources I have seen place the Canadian flotilla exclusively in Task Force O, assigned to Omaha Beach. FactotEm (talk) 15:39, 15 August 2016 (UTC)
At the moment the Canadian flag is included in the infobox list of belligerents, but this is not supported by any statement in the main body of the article. The conversation above provides two sources which strongly suggest that there was in fact a Canadian contribution, to the naval operations, at Utah. However, the first source states only that the "14th MS flotilla Swept Ch. 2 ahead of Force U" (which, it is clear from the source, means Utah Beach), but without specific mention of the Canadians, while the second source lists three Canadian minesweepers that were part of the 14th MS flotilla at the time of the Normandy landings, but without specific mention of Utah Beach. While in my opinion common sense dictates that this verfies a Canadian contribution, I believe that technically it would be a violation of WP:SYNTH to include this in the article. What do others think? Without some sourced statement in the main narrative, there's no justification for the inclusion of Canada in the list of belligerents. FactotEm (talk) 12:49, 21 November 2017 (UTC)
From a cursory reading of the article (and other related articles) I gather that the Dutch contribution to the landings at Utah consists mostly of the participation of a single gunboat. I'm not familiar with military articles about battles, but to me this does not seem sufficient contribution to be mentioned as a separate belligerent in an article's infobox? DragonFury (talk) 22:12, 10 April 2019 (UTC)
Once the four troop transports assigned to Force U reached their assigned position 12 miles (19 km) off the coast, 5,000 soldiers of 4th Division and other units assigned to Utah boarded their landing craft in rough seas for the three-hour journey to their designated landing point The was no rough sea. The "source" says: But the seasick GIs who would soon be forced to travel three hours or more to Utah Beach on the Channel's famously rough waters, packed like cattle into diminutive landing craft, perhaps wished that their commanders would be a little more bold and anchor the transports closer inshore. I don't know what that is, but it just seems to be some sort of storytelling to make it more heroic. Apart from the strong current, the sea near Utah was calm, so no tanks sank, which was one of the main differences to Omaha. Even the photos on this page show the conditions very well. Military Review, Number 26,Volume 11 p.45 seems to be the only one that calls the sea also rough, but "moderatly rough". --2003:D1:670B:AB40:C4BF:C7C1:65CC:A6B2 (talk) 11:45, 15 May 2020 (UTC)
The map currently shown at the head of the Landings section on this page, File:d-day-landing-map-beaches.png is extremely inaccurate. The beaches are in the correct order, but Sword Beach actually ends approximately at the middle of the word "Juno" and there were no D-Day landings east of that. This should either be replaced with one of the other maps on the D-Day pages or a new map should be made along the same lines but with locations corrected. Hammerquill (talk) 09:20, 11 April 2021 (UTC)
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