Irony

[Bill Palmer]

Well, fairly big...Iwo Jima, Saipan, Peleliu, Tinian, et al.

Bill P
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> Really BIG ones?
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> On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 9:38 PM, Bill Palmer
> <w_a_palmer at bellsouth.net>wrote:
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>> 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")
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>> 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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