D-Dayin a sentence
- Some had made D-day landings in the Marshalls, on Saipan, Tinian, Luzon, and Leyte.† (source)
- D-day was two months ago.† (source)
- Yours, Anne M. Frank TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 1944 My dearest Kitty, "This is D-Day," the BBC announced at twelve.† (source)
- Most important, we kept our news the most closely guarded secret since D-day.† (source)
- Then to the couple—"You know … how, uh, children are … th-th-these days … they play all d-d-day at school and c-c-can't wait to get home and pl-play some more."† (source)
- White parachuted into Normandy the night before D-Day and later into Holland.† (source)
- They'd first met near the end of the war, said hello-goodbye but corresponded, she was an air-raid warden with a torch, they called it, and he was a quartermaster handing out condoms for D-day that the troops fixed to the muzzles of their rifles to keep out sand and water and he still liked her in a towel or slip, married twenty-seven years to this point.† (source)
- They gave us the D-day, at least that's what we think."† (source)
- We do know that Mike was there longest, fighting on what is always the single toughest day, D-Day.† (source)
- On Thursday night—one night until D-Day, as Miles had begun mentally referring to it—Miles lay in bed with Jonah, trading a book back and forth so each could read a page.† (source)
- To me, this felt more like D-Day.† (source)
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- He was in the war, too—he landed on D-Day and all—but I really think he hated the Army worse than the war.† (source)
- It's D-Day, Bobby boy.† (source)
- My mother heard the report of D-Day on our ancient radio and walked up to the crab house to tell me.† (source)
- That's more men than died on the beaches of Normandy on D-day in World War Two, twenty-six years later."† (source)
- In a speech on December 31, 1960, Castro warned America that any landing force would suffer far greater losses than on D-Day.† (source)
- The wedding was D-day, and he was woefully unprepared for the battle.† (source)
- I felt like I was at the planning session for D-Day.† (source)
- Always before, important events and dates had been marked in memory with definite labels, not only such days as Thanksgiving, New Year's, and Lincoln's Birthday, but Pearl Harbor Day, D-Day, VE-Day, VJ-Day, Income Tax Day.† (source)
- I was in Miami living the good life at Coral Gables when Eisenhower sent the armies ashore on D-Day, and at preflight school at the University of Georgia when Patton was racing for the Rhine.† (source)
- D-Day was planned for June 5th, but was changed to the 6th due to bad weather.
- Danny had run past his severed, dying pal on D-Day.† (source)
- On D-Day, Ruhl had shown everyone that he was not kidding.† (source)
- On February 17, D-Day minus two, ships' doctors reported an outbreak of diarrhea.† (source)
- But the Pacific's largest D-Day was terribly different.† (source)
- The heaviest and coldest rains since D-Day lashed at the surviving Marines.† (source)
- D-Day, February 19, 1945—to the beaches, with Mount Suribachi in the background.† (source)
- It would be a seven-hundred-mile, four-day trip to D-Day, scheduled for February 19.† (source)
- As much logistics went into this trip as went into the planning of D-Day, or so I thought.† (source)
- I fought Nazis from D-Day all the way into Germany.† (source)
- In the three weeks since D-Day there hasn't been a day without rain and storms, neither here nor in France, but this bad luck hasn't kept the British and the Americans from displaying their might.† (source)
- We heard over the BBC that Churchill wanted to land along with the troops on D-Day, but Eisenhower and the other generals managed to talk him out of it.† (source)
- My father looked grim as he studied the war maps that showed the Allied advance between D-Day and the third week of July.† (source)
- He thinks him callow and incapable of governing, and finds it galling that a man who was a mere lieutenant during the Second World War is taking over the presidency from the general who directed the D-Day invasion.† (source)
- He landed on D-Day without a rifle.† (source)
- Fear of infiltrators—the fear of the dancing shadows—had preoccupied the Americans on each night since D-Day.† (source)
- Soon after sunrise on D-Day plus one, Colonel Liversedge positioned his 2nd and 3rd Battalions to continue their assault on Mount Suribachi.† (source)
- As the blood spurted, Corpsman Clifford Langley—who had treated a jaw wound on D-Day—hurried to Wheeler's side and applied compresses.† (source)
- His unit was supposed to go in on D-Day, but the beach was so full they didn't make it until two P.M. on D+1.† (source)
- The evening of D-Day minus one, February 18, a date that nine years later would become my birthday, my father and the assault troops still could not see their objective.† (source)
- The hard statistics show the sacrifice made by Colonel Johnson's 2nd Battalion: 1,400 boys landed on D-Day; 288 replacements were provided as the battle went on, a total of 1,688.† (source)
- Rosenthal, covering the invasion for the Associated Press, had landed on Iwo at around noon on D-Day and had risked his life to get stirring action shots through the days of combat that followed.† (source)
- It would be forty-four years before physicist Donald Olson would discover that D-Day at Tarawa occurred during one of only two days in 1943 when the moon's apogee coincided with a neap tide, resulting in a tidal range of only a few inches rather than several feet.† (source)
- D-Day, February 19, 1945.† (source)
- D-Day, February 19, 1945.† (source)
- He had landed on the third wave during D-Day, fought his way across France, teamed up with a sharpshooting Texan, who together with Stone formed a murderously competent sniping team, and eventually crossed into Germany when the armistice was signed.† (source)
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