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A Day to Remember

These landing operations have a very clever name.

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Joey Held
Jun 06, 2025
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The “D” in “D-Day” stands for “Day,” meaning people are technically saying “Day-Day” when referring to the Normandy landings in World War II.

Almost every military battle has a name (and typically, a codename). June 6, 1944 is when …

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