All 19 Uses
D-Day
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Flags of Our Fathers
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- We do know that Mike was there longest, fighting on what is always the single toughest day, D-Day.†
Chpt 4. *
- 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.†
Chpt 4.
- It would be a seven-hundred-mile, four-day trip to D-Day, scheduled for February 19.†
Chpt 6.
- On February 17, D-Day minus two, ships' doctors reported an outbreak of diarrhea.†
Chpt 6.
- 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.†
Chpt 6.
- Soon after sunrise on D-Day plus one, Colonel Liversedge positioned his 2nd and 3rd Battalions to continue their assault on Mount Suribachi.†
Chpt 8.
- On D-Day, Ruhl had shown everyone that he was not kidding.†
Chpt 8.
- He landed on D-Day without a rifle.†
Chpt 8.
- 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.†
Chpt 8.
- As the blood spurted, Corpsman Clifford Langley—who had treated a jaw wound on D-Day—hurried to Wheeler's side and applied compresses.†
Chpt 9.
- Fear of infiltrators—the fear of the dancing shadows—had preoccupied the Americans on each night since D-Day.†
Chpt 9.
- The heaviest and coldest rains since D-Day lashed at the surviving Marines.†
Chpt 10.
- 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.†
Chpt 11.
- D-Day, February 19, 1945—to the beaches, with Mount Suribachi in the background.†
Chpt 11.
- D-Day, February 19, 1945.†
Chpt 11.
- D-Day, February 19, 1945.†
Chpt 11.
- But the Pacific's largest D-Day was terribly different.†
Chpt 12.
- 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.†
Chpt 13.
- Danny had run past his severed, dying pal on D-Day.†
Chpt 13.
Definitions:
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(1)
(D-Day) day of the Allied landing to liberate France in World War II (June 6, 1944)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)