Word: utah
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...east of the Orne River. On the right flank the U.S. 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions, although badly scattered in the airdrop, outfought three German divisions, suffering 2,500 casualties. Shielded by this U.S. airborne success, the U.S. 4th Infantry Division swept ashore soon after the first light on Utah Beach, swamped the defenses at a cost of only 197 casualties. It was D-Day's first major breakthrough...
...night the Allies poured reinforcements onto the hard-won strips of Europe-36,250 in the Utah sector, 34,250 at Omaha, 83,115 on the British-Canadian beaches and airborne area. The German infantry began to crumble. Still desperately fighting, the British punched out gains of six miles, the Canadians eight. The U.S. 1st and 29th Divisions battled into fortified villages behind Omaha, dug in. In the Utah sector the seaborne forces linked up with the airborne, pressed inland. The battle neared its moment of truth-the expected counterattack of Rommel's blazing Panzers. But that moment never...
...Metz in the most spectacular armored advance of the war. There was the unforgettable moment when Paris was liberated. But those moments essentially had been made possible by the U.S., British and Canadian troops who, on that single day 15 years ago, stormed the beaches named Sword, Juno, Gold, Utah and Omaha...
Died. Emory D. Alvord, 73, Utah-born Congregational missionary who brought "the Gospel of the Plow" to Southern Rhodesia, revolutionized agricultural methods in central Africa; of a heart attack; in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia...
...softly curving Western river can be curiously unpredictable, full of hidden delights and contemptuously unforgiving of just one human mistake. Well was this known to the 1,600 boating buffs who drove across the Mormon desert country in southeastern Utah last weekend and unhitched their outboards on the verdant shores of the Green River for the second annual 196-mile Canyon Country Friendship Cruise. Into the water they went, dodging sandbars, winding past craggy red cliffs, through deep and colorfully named canyons-Moonshining, Hell Roaring, Upheaval...