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D-Day (military term) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the first day of the Invasion of Normandy, see Normandy Landings.
Battle plans for the Normandy Invasion, the most famous D-Day.D-Day is a term often used in military parlance to denote the day on which a combat attack or operation is to be initiated. "D-Day" often represents a variable, designating the day upon which some significant event will occur or has occurred; see Military designation of days and hours for similar terms. The initial D in D-Day has had various meanings in the past, while more recently it has obtained the connotation of "Day" itself, thereby creating the phrase "Day-Day", or "Day of Days".[1] On the same principle, the equivalent terms in French, Basque, Romanian and Slovenian are Jour J, E eguna, Ziua-Z, and Dan D.[citation needed]
The best known D-Day is June 6, 1944 — the day of the Normandy landings — initiating the Western Allied effort to liberate mainland Europe from Nazi occupation during World War II. However, many other invasions and operations had a designated D-Day, both before and after that operation.[2]
The terms D-Day and H-Hour are used for the day and hour on which a combat attack or operation is to be initiated. They designate the day and hour of the operation when the day and hour have not yet been determined, or where secrecy is essential. For a given operation, the same D-Day and H-Hour apply for all units participating in it.
When used in combination with numbers, and plus or minus signs, these terms indicate the point of time preceding or following a specific action. Thus, H−3 means 3 hours before H-Hour, and D+3 means 3 days after D-Day. (By extension, H+75 minutes is used for H-Hour plus 1 hour and 15 minutes.)
Planning papers for large-scale operations are made up in detail long before specific dates are set. Thus, orders are issued for the various steps to be carried out on the D-Day or H-Hour minus or plus a certain number of days, hours, or minutes. At the appropriate time, a subsequent order is issued that states the actual day and times.
In spacecraft launchings, NASA utilizes the term 'T-Time' for the timing of the launch sequence down to the second (rather than M-Minute and S-Second), as in the expression "T minus 10 seconds and counting" for their countdown clock.
When referencing a local time zone, "Z-8" ("zulu minus eight") refers to Universal Co-ordinated Time (formerly Greenwich Mean Time) minus 8 hours, or 8 hours behind UTC. "Z+10" means 10 hours ahead of or earlier than UTC. This is because the time zone at zero degrees longitude is designated by the letter Z, which is phonetically designated as 'zulu', there being 24 principal time zones world wide, each designated by a distinct letter of the roman alphabet. Thus, for example, Vancouver Canada local time is 1 o'clock in the morning when it is 9 o'clock in London UK, since Pacific Standard Time is Z-8 (9-8 = 1 in this example).
History
Official U.S. Twelfth Army situation map for 2400 hours, 6 June 1944.The earliest use of these terms by the U.S. Army that the Center of Military History has been able to find was during World War I. In Field Order Number 9, First Army, American Expeditionary Forces, dated 7 September 1918: "The First Army will attack at H hour on D day with the object of forcing the evacuation of the St. Mihiel Salient."
D-Day for the invasion of Normandy by the Allies was originally set for June 5, 1944, but bad weather and heavy seas caused Gen. Dwight D Eisenhower to delay until June 6 and that date has been popularly referred to ever since by the short title "D-Day". Because of the connotation with the invasion of Normandy, planners of later military operations sometimes avoided the term to prevent confusion. For example, Douglas MacArthur's invasion of Leyte began on "A-Day", and the invasion of Okinawa began on "L-Day". The Allies proposed invasions of Japan that would have begun on "X-Day" (the plan to invade Japan)(on Kyūshū, scheduled for November 1945) and "Y-Day" (on Honshū, scheduled for March 1946).
Notes
^ "D-Day". The Oxford Companion to World War II. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2005. pp. 220. ISBN 0-19-280666-1.
^ Hakim, Joy (1995). A History of Us: War, Peace and all that Jazz. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-509514-6.
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My dad was in France and he had a few stories to tell. I went to Breast Franch during one of my visits which is a continueing of Normandy. It is a very impressive place, many memorials honoring our troops have been placed around the area.I have attached a graveyard from Normandy.
Many of you may not know this but if you ask for gravesites of US military and then state a country, you will be quite amazed at what other countries have done to honor our troops. Go to this site to see many of these. Pretty amazing. http://www.ww1cemeteries.com/ww1cemeter ... orials.htm
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Amen to that. Wore my flag pin today, but nobody noticed nor does anyone really bring it up, and I'm right here, bartending just a short distance away from Ft.Knox. It's the REAL OLD oldtimers like my Dad who might mention it, kinda like they're testing you to see if you even know about it....all I know is I'm blessed for being the baby of the family born n raised here, Dad retired here after serving 26 yrs-- WW2, Korea and Nam, and I'm still here, bartending to and feeding the brave that keeps us all free.
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CLEVELAND, Ohio - Will we still honor and remember D-Day after the last World War II vet is gone?
Today is the 73rd anniversary of that June 6, 1944, invasion of France that saw one of the largest forces ever assembled for battle on land, sea and air.
Some 156,000 American, British and Canadian troops attacked German defenders along a 50-mile stretch of heavily defended Normandy coastline.
An estimated 4,000 Allied troops were killed, but by the end of the day the beachheads had been secured in an invasion that was called the beginning of the end of the war in Europe.
Yet the day may come when that feat of American military history will be noted largely in history books, marked by the same fading luster as such bygone battle cries as "Remember the Alamo" or "Remember the Maine."
The number of living veterans who served in World War II is dwindling; down from 16 million during the war to about 500,000 today (Ohio has more than 26,000). They're dying at a rate of 372 a day, with an average age now in the 90s.
There is, however, an oral tradition that continues, even after these veterans are gone, as their stories live on through their families.
In the case of D-Day, Timothy Kalil, 65, of Ashtabula, remembers his Uncle Mike, who died in 1989.
Over the years, former Army Sgt. Michael Paulchel shared bits and pieces of military memories with his family.
Remembering Uncle Mike at D-Day
Kalil said his uncle didn't talk a lot about D-Day. But "he would talk about it on its anniversary," he said. "He didn't tear up or well up. You kind of had to pull it out of him in some ways.
"He was like every other vet," he added. "They just didn't talk about it."
Kalil described his uncle as a generous and talented man who grew up in Ashtabula in a family of three sons and three daughters of Italian immigrants.
After graduating from high school, he worked on the docks in Ashtabula Harbor, helping support the family after his father was killed crossing a street in a snowstorm to deliver lunches to his daughters at school.
When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in late 1941, he didn't hesitate to enlist, even though he was 33 years old by then.
"Here's a middle 30s-year-old man jumping in and out of foxholes. That's interesting," Kalil said. "Mike decided he wanted adventure, and also he wanted to defend his country. After Pearl Harbor I think he was that kind of guy, he was, 'Hey this is wrong. We need to go to war.'
"He wasn't scared," Kalil said. "He said we had a job to do and were going to get it done. He wanted to see it through."
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He remembered a story his uncle told that happened in England during training for the D-Day invasion. Sgt. Paulchel and a buddy were at a theater in London when an announcement was made to evacuate the building and find shelter because a German rocket attack was headed that way.
Kalil said his uncle told him that his buddy decided to stay, and was killed, cut in half, when the bombardment hit the theater.
Grimmer scenes lay in store when the soldier was part of the D-Day invasion, headed for Omaha beach in the first assault wave.
Kalil said his uncle's landing craft hit a mine en route to the beach and had to be towed back. Its occupants transferred to another boat and joined the second wave.
Considering the initial carnage on the beach -- 2,400 casualties in a single day -- Kalil regards his uncle as relatively fortunate.
He recalled his uncle's story: "He goes in the water, says it's at least waist deep . . . he's going in, bullets flying all over . . . he made it to the beach and turned around and the Atlantic Ocean had turned red. It was absolutely red with blood. He couldn't believe it."
"He said they got the job done, but they lost a lot of men," Kalil added.
His uncle's luck held through the remainder of the war. "He was very fortunate he was not hit," Kalil said. "He was blessed all his life in that respect."
After the war, Paulchel returned to work on the Ashtabula docks, and got married in the late 1940s. The couple had no children. "His nieces and nephews were his children," Kalil said.
Other members of the family had gone to war. Kalil's aunt, Angela (Paulchel) Shamberg, was an Army nurse, and her husband, Dan, flew as a bomber waist gunner with the Army Air Forces in Europe. Kalil's father, Joseph, served in the Navy and then transferred to the Merchant Marine.
But Uncle Mike could sometimes seem the most affected by his war experience, Kalil recalled.
He said his uncle and other D-Day veterans "seem to have a sadness about them. They seem to have been marked by what they saw."
Kalil learned a few lessons from his uncle's experience. He believes that in a sense, when his uncle talked about D-day, he was saying, "Live life to the fullest because of what we did on this beach, and on this day we have given the gift of freedom to everyone. Now it's up to you to appreciate it, and enjoy life, and take it from there."
He also thinks that D-Day validated the sacrifice of Italians and other immigrants and their descendants during the war.
"That makes us proud that we defended the country. We were at D-Day. It legitimizes the Ellis Island immigrants. We were all on that beach together," he said.
"What was it about these ethnic neighborhoods that made these guys want to fight and die, and go on the shores of Omaha Beach knowing they would die?" he added. "What was it about this neighborhood that made my Uncle Mike want to do this?"
Kalil will always have his Uncle Mike's stories to recall on each June 6 anniversary of the invasion.
But he wonders how long the D-Day homage will last when all the World War II vets are gone.
"I'm not sure it will. We're a diverse America now, and a lot people who are here now, their countries weren't even in the war and it's not that important to them," Kalil said. "I think it (honoring D-Day) is going be less and less. I hate to say that. Ideally it shouldn't be.
He sees one possible solution.
"I think we need to make D-Day a national holiday, a day of remembrance," he said. "It's that important. It shows how much people loved their country."
D-Day 6/6/44
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Not many news stories on D Day that I have seen today. Don't forget what was done to keep us and much of the world free.
Sure we have a lot of nanny state laws I disagree with and law that regulate even things like capturing rain water that must go but at least we have the right to fight them and vote them out. Get up and do your part, its why these guys fought so hard. ....because it was the right thing to do.
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