D DAY

• D day: unnamed day set for beginning something offensive.
• Best known D Day: 6th June, 1994.
• The Normandy landings were the largest amphibious operation in history.
• It marked the beginning of the end for Hitler and the Nazis
• Movies directed on D Day: The longest day and Saving Private Ryan

Considering the dictionary meaning of the team “D Day” , “D Day” is the unnamed day on which an operation or an offensive is to be launched or a day set for beginning something.

In the military, D day is the day on which the combat attack or offensive attack is to be initiated.
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.



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 ||. However, many other invasions and operations had a designated D-Day, both before and after that operation

Do you realize that by the time you wake up in the morning 20,000 men may have been killed?
Churchill to his wife the night before D-Day

The Normandy landings were the largest amphibious operation in history. In one day, 175,000 troops landed on the Normandy coast crossing English Channel, with the help of more than 5,000 ships, crewed by 195,700 personnel from the Allied navies and merchant navies.
 The fighting continued for 10 weeks until 19 August.
 

After the defeat in Normandy, the German forces in Western Europe were so reduced that the American, British, Canadian, Polish and Free French armies advanced to capture Paris by 22 August and Brussels by 1 September.

There are 17, 769 British war graves in the whole of the Normandy battle zone.

Without D-Day, Adolf Hitler would have deployed many more divisions to resist the Red Army. He would have had more time to develop, and deploy, his modern weapon of terror, the V2. The war might have continued indefinitely.

At the very least, the Iron Curtain which was established in central Europe in the late 1940s might have been built 600 miles to the west, between Britain and the continent.
The significance was that a successful landing in Normandy paved the way for the Allies to liberate all the Occupied Countries of Europe. (They all did it too, except for the Soviet Union who kept the countries it "liberated" for itself).

It marked the beginning of the end for Hitler and the Nazis as the Russians were racing to Germany from the East and the rest of the Allies were doing the same from the West and also through Italy.

Once a beach head was successfully established and men and supplies started pouring in to mainland Europe, Germany was finished - it was only a matter of time.

Movies directed on D Day: The longest day and Saving Private Ryan