SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — Utah Beach was the codename for the westernmost beach American troops landed on in the D-Day invasion of Nazi-occupied France. But what did Utah have to do with Utah beach?

I have always wondered about Utah Beach. On June 6, 1944, in the heat of World War II, Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy, France, on “D-Day” as they began the liberation of German ...