I haven't got a clue or a care.
This is correct but a bit more of the why:
Many times the planning of a military operation takes place without an actual start date. Some events are scoped based on the day that the operation kicks of. However, that day is not known. Think of it like project management.
Suppose there is a project kick off date ... some time in June. Before the project kicks off, I know that X days prior, something needs to be done. So D-DAY minus X is the start date for that effort.
Also consider that the planning for Normandy was started MONTHS before the actual landings.
It also meant when the date had to be changed (From June 4th to June 5th for example) you did not have to re-write all of the orders. They just rolled to the next date.
“D” in D-Day stands for “Deliverance”, the time when the plans made are put into operation.
No battle plan survives the first contact with the enemy. Perhaps storming the beaches was the only possible successful (if it may be called that) strategy, to expend the lives of thousands and the wounding of even more thousands, before the objective could be gained.
Warfare is the most hideously expensive pastime humanity has ever devised. And it only engages the free will of very few people. Everybody else are just pawns on the chessboard.
Once again google ignores and gives the finger to anything patriotic.....unbelievable
Cause it was D day hitler was going down
It was called D-Day because FDR wanted to call it “Invasion day on June 6th 1944 in Normandy” may have tipped off the Germans.
Standard Military Acronymn that became famous.
Interesting A Article
I wonder if they got their F facts right.
I don’t understand why the US had a European theater, other than because Japan was an attacker was an ally of Germany.
Did we attack to keep Muzzies out of Europe?
Did we attack to prevent European countries from not being able to control their borders?
Did we attack to assure that votes taken in Europe would be something other than ceremonial decorations..?
Did we attack to assure democracy didn’t disappear in Europe..?
The USA fought and won yet EACH ONE of those things have come true during this peace.
I was a little iffy on it 10 years ago, but now I’m not —we didn’t help ourselves by intervening and we didn’t help anyone.
Extrapolating from current trends, how will I feel in 20 years? Will girls be able to go to Euro beaches in bikinis..? Will Denmark have ham? Will France have wine..? What about the UK’s nukes..?
Our men were very brave, yes they were. The problem isn’t with the followers:
Our problem is with our leaders.
As a kid my neighbor was at D-Day. He said it stood for “Disembarkment” Day.
I believe that October 20, 1944, the day when MacArthur returned to the Philippines, was called “A Day” for the same reason.
I always thought if meant Decision-Day. I stand corrected, thanks for the post.
I was always told the D in D-Day stood for Debarkation...The exact date of the invasion not being known other than a projected window of dates in late May thru June 1944...
Due to vaguery of weather and tide, phases of moon, etc, the D was a target not an actual set date...