D-Day theory: Utah Beach named for Provo carpenter

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(Louis Weintraub | AP) Members of an American landing unit help their comrades ashore Utah Beach during the Normandy invasion, June 6, 1944.

(Louis Weintraub | AP) Members of an American landing unit help their comrades ashore Utah Beach during the Normandy invasion, June 6, 1944.

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