Irony

[Mark Mandel]

Really BIG ones?

On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 9:38 PM, Bill Palmer <w_a_palmer at bellsouth.net>wrote:

> 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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> > "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.
> >>
> >> The date of the Okinawa landing (April 1, 1945) was for some reason
> >> designated "L Day."
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> >> JL
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