Battle of Cherbourg

Battle of Cherbourg
Part of the Normandy Campaign, World War II
Cotentin Peninsula and port of Cherbourg, 1944
Date 6 June – 1 July 1944 (Cotentin Peninsula) 22–27 June 1944 (Cherbourg) Location Normandy, France Result Allied victory
Belligerents
United States  United Kingdom	Germany
Commanders and leaders
J. Lawton Collins Matthew Ridgway	Friedrich Dollmann Karl-Wilhelm von Schlieben
Strength
Unknown	40,000
Casualties and losses
2,800 killed 5,700 missing 13,500 wounded Total: 22,000	7,000–8,000 killed or missing 30,000 captured Total: 37,000–38,000+

The Battle of Cherbourg was part of the Battle of Normandy during World War II. It was fought immediately after the successful Allied landings on 6 June 1944. Allied troops, mainly American, isolated and captured the fortified port, which was considered vital to the campaign in Western Europe, in a hard-fought, month-long campaign.