Normandy D-Day Landing Beaches:Utah – Omaha – Gold – Juno – Sword A stretch of Normandy coastline from La Madelaine in the west to Ouistreham in the east was identified as the area for the greatest military amphibious invasion in history. The Allied commanders decided on five landing zones, each with its own codename to break through Hitler’s Atlantic Wall defences and begin the Liberation of France and Western Europe.