Irony

[Bill Palmer]

If so, it would also prevent confusion w/ the dozens of other operations,
too, all of which had a "D-Day", notable exceptions being, as JL noted,
Okinawa, and also Leyte ("A-Day")

Bill P
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From: "Mark Mandel" <thnidu at GMAIL.COM>
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Sent: Friday, June 25, 2010 9:17 PM
Subject: Re: Irony


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> "For some reason" ... perhaps to avoid confusion with the Normandy landing
> less than a year previous (June 6, 1944)?
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> m a m
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> On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Jonathan Lighter
> <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> The date of the Okinawa landing (April 1, 1945) was for some reason
>> designated "L Day."
>>
>> JL
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