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, France49°38′20″N 1°36′58″W / 49.63889°N 1.61611°W
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 in action; 5,700 missing; 13,500 wounded; Total:; 22,000;	7,000 killed; 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.