Word: utah
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There was a brief ceremony at Bayeux, the cathedral town about five miles inland that served as U.S. headquarters during the first weeks after the invasion. Later, a torch was lighted at Utah Beach, where the 4th Division had land ed, and a military band played the na tional anthems of the U.S., Britain, France, Canada, The Netherlands, Belgium and Norway...
...visitors lingered by the graves of their fallen comrades, and in the vil lage squares, local musicians played tunes of glory. Most of the returning warriors, however, sought to revive their memories on the Normandy beaches - Omaha, Juno and Utah. Some brought their families, and under a bright, sunny sky, they tried to describe the all-or-nothing assault upon Hitler's Festung Europa. For many it was the second longest...
WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). International Surfing championships from Makaha Beach, Hawaii, and the N.C.A.A. Wrestling championship from Provo, Utah...
...Omaha, the most arduous of the five D-day beaches assaulted (Utah, Juno, Sword and Gold were the others), the sand is a dirty golden color, and the tidal flats reach in for 100 yards to a series of bluffs covered with tamarisk, brambles and wild blackberries. In 1944 the bluffs were ablaze with German fire: in the first violent hours of the invasion, some 3,000 Americans were cut down as they waded in from their landing craft and clung desperately to the perilous band of beach...
...Utah, the other beach on which U.S. forces landed, is even bleaker than Omaha: a vast expanse of windswept dunes and scrub grass. To Mayor Michel de Vallavielle of nearby Sainte-Marie-du-Mont, the beach is an almost personal possession. "It remains the symbol of liberation," he says. On June 6, 1944, De Vallavielle was mistakenly shot and wounded by American paratroopers, but it did not affect his gratitude to the liberators. Over the years, he has built a small museum in a blockhouse and has seen to it that the original wooden markers naming local roads and paths...