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D-Day
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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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