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June 6, 1944
Answer for the clue "June 6, 1944 ", 5 letters:
d-day
Word definitions for d-day in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context historical English) June 6, 1944, the date during World War II when the Allies invaded western Europe. 2 (context figuratively English) The date of any major event planned for the future.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
D-Day is a 2015 South Korean television series that airs on jTBC on Fridays and Saturdays at 20:40 for 20 episodes beginning September 18, 2015.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1918, "date set for the beginning of a military operation," with D as an abbreviation of day ; compare H-hour , also from the same military order of Sept. 7, 1918:The First Army will attack at H-Hour on D-Day with the object of forcing the evacuation of ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
D-day \D-day\ n. (Mil.) the day designated for the beginning of a planned attack by a military force; in communications the day is often otherwise unspecified for security reasons; as, the day before D-day the troops will move into position. 6 June 1944, ...
Usage examples of d-day.
He just may have already sketched out a last-ditch, D-Day style battle plan that would turn the tide with one stroke and scuttle any move for impeachment.
Peter Tsourass recent Disaster at D-Day: The Germans Defeat the Allies, June 1944 and Gettysburg: An Alternate History recall, in their detail and fictional critical apparatus, Robert Sobels classic For Want of a Nail, which imagines a failed American Revolution and the subsequent 180 years of history from the perspective of a college history text.
Fritz Niland had just learned that his brother had been killed on D-Day.
It was planned that from this line the assault regiments would punch out to the D-day phase line.