Irony

[Mark Mandel]

"For some reason" ... perhaps to avoid confusion with the Normandy landing
less than a year previous (June 6, 1944)?

m a m

On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Both "D Day" and "H Hour" were originally used in U.S. Army
> communications and were evidently first applied in preceding days to the
> start of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, Sept. 24, 1918.
>
> The date of the Okinawa landing (April 1, 1945) was for some reason
> designated "L Day."
>
> JL
>

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