Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
In the military, D-Day is the day on which a combat attack or operation is to be initiated. [1] The best-known D-Day is during World War II, on June 6, 1944—the day of the Normandy landings—initiating the Western Allied effort to liberate western Europe from Nazi Germany. However, many other invasions and operations had a designated D-Day ...
Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day (after the military term), it is the largest seaborne invasion in history. The operation began the liberation of France , and the rest of Western Europe, and laid the foundations of the Allied victory on the Western Front .
Times relative to the designation are indicated with +/−[Arabic numeral] after the letter, replacing -day or -hour with a count of the same unit: "D−1" (the day before D-Day), "L+9" (9 hours after L-Hour) etc. [citation needed] In less formal contexts, the symbol or numeral may be spelled out: "D minus 1" or "L plus nine." [citation needed ...
The single most important day of the 20th century was 79 years ago on June 6, 1944, during the pinnacle of World War II. It will forever be remembered as D-Day, but the official code name was ...
Veterans and world leaders are gathered in Normandy, France, for the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings, marking the invasion that helped turn the tide of World War II. President Biden is ...
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
It would make sense for the link to D-Day to take them directly to where they expect to go, not to an article on the generic meaning of the term "D-Day". I therefore propose renaming this article to "D-Day (military term)", making [[D-Day]] a redirect to Normandy Landings and adding a link back to [[D-Day (military term)]] from a hatnote on ...
Veterans and world leaders will meet in Normandy, northwestern France, on June 6 to mark the 80th anniversary of the 1944 D-Day landings, when more than 150,000 Allied soldiers invaded France to ...