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answers.span_text: Omaha Beach : V Corps 1st Infantry Division 29th Infantry Division Utah Beach : VII Corps 4th Infantry Division 82nd Airborne Division 90th Infantry Division 101st Airborne Division Second Army Gold Beach XXX Corps 50th Infantry Division Juno Beach I Corps 3rd Canadian Infantry Division Sword Beach
questions: the names of the beaches on d day
name: Normandy landings
contexts: Normandy landings Part of Operation Overlord , Invasion of Normandy Men of the 16th Infantry Regiment , U.S. 1st Infantry Division wade ashore on Omaha Beach on the morning of 6 June 1944 Date June 6 , 1944 ; 73 years ago ( 1944 - 06 - 06 ) Location Normandy , France Result Decisive Allied victory Territorial changes Five Allied beachheads established in Normandy Belligerents United Kingdom United States Canada Australia Belgium Czechoslovakia Denmark Free France Greece Netherlands New Zealand Norway Poland Germany Commanders and leaders Dwight D. Eisenhower Bernard Montgomery Omar Bradley Miles Dempsey Trafford Leigh - Mallory Bertram Ramsay Arthur Tedder Gerd von Rundstedt Erwin Rommel Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg Friedrich Dollmann Hans von Salmuth Wilhelm Falley † Units involved First Army Omaha Beach : V Corps 1st Infantry Division 29th Infantry Division Utah Beach : VII Corps 4th Infantry Division 82nd Airborne Division 90th Infantry Division 101st Airborne Division Second Army Gold Beach XXX Corps 50th Infantry Division Juno Beach I Corps 3rd Canadian Infantry Division Sword Beach I Corps 3rd Infantry Division 6th Airborne Division 5th Panzer Army South of Caen 21st Panzer Division 7th Army Omaha 352nd Infantry Division Utah Beach 709th Static Division Gold , Juno , and Sword 716th Static Division Strength 156,000 50,350 + 170 coastal artillery guns . Includes guns from 100mm to 210mm , as well as 320mm rocket launchers . Casualties and losses 10,000 + casualties ; 4,414 confirmed dead 185 M4 Sherman tanks 4,000 -- 9,000 casualties