6h30 : H Hour

The first twenty landing crafts opened their ramps on the beach at low tide, and 600 men belonging to the 2nd Battallion of the 8th Infantry Division of the 4th Division under the command of General BARTON ran without cover to the sand dunes.

A few minutes later, 28 of the 32 amphibious Shermans of the 70th Tank Battallion reached the beach.

Some men of the Engineer and US NAVY were already active demining and clearing the beach of its obstacles.

 Lieutenant JAHNKE watched powerless the allies took control of the beach.
The young Lieutenant couldn't help but see how disorganized his defense system was : artillery guns out of use, many wounded men.

As a last resort, he tried using the final weapon he had against Colonel HUFFER's tanks : the GOLIATH but their fragile guiding system had been damaged by the allied bombing.

Before 9 o'clock, german position W5 no longer existed, the last ennemy having surrendered.

At midday, the first soldiers of the 4th Division linked up with a group of parachutists in POUPPEVILLE, 4 kms south of UTAH BEACH.

At 1.00 p.m, tanks entered into the town centre of SAINTE MARIE DU MONT. The same evening a second column backed up by the 22nd Infantry Regiment arrived at RAVENOVILLE. They brought to nothing the german's forces established along the coast.

The 12th Infantry Regiment was stopped at TURQUEVILLE (3 km east of SAINTE MERE EGLISE) in the evening of the 6th of june 1944, by a Wehrmacht's Geogian Battallion, which they overcame early the next morning.