what was Dday back in war ww2 and has there been any more?

Question

back in the days and in army movies thay talked about cout down to D-Day

Answer 1

it is the day they stormed the beach at Normandy!

Answer 2

Normandie, 6 juin 1944.

In the biggest combined land, sea and air operation of all time. British, Canadian and American forces have landed on the Normandie beaches at more than a dozen points along a hundred miles of coast. The Germans appear to have been caught off their guard. Allied air reconnaissance has shown that the strongest German defences are concentrated in the Pas de Calais, and that a powerful armoured force there has not been removed.
The massive operation began with heavy aerial bombardment of German coastal batteries and the sweeping of mines from the invasion route. A seaborne force of several thousand ships, brought from widely scattered British ports, converged on the invasion coast soon after 05:00. Battleships far out to sea and destroyers closer inland pounded the German defences. Engineers demolished beach obstacles and the fighting men came up behind them with tanks and self-propelled artillery.
And so on and so forth. One of the bloodiest battle of WWII.
LEST WE FORGET.

Answer 3

D-Day was June 6 1944. It was a giant battle and one of the largest (if not the largest) military invasions in history. Allied troops crossed the English Channel and stormed the beaches of France. It was the beginning of an effort to retake continental europe from the clutches of the Nazis. If you've ever seen footage of the D-Day invasion it is really impressive. The sky is full of planes as far as the eye can see and the sea is so packed with ships that it looks like you can just jump from one ship to the other.

Answer 4

that's when the damn allies crossed the English channel and stormed onto the Normandy beach to drive back the germans, which was a sad day for the germans....but, yea, the allies won and pushed the germans out of france, and pushed them back into germany and basically enclosed them in germany, cause the russians were coming from the east, and the allies came from the west. And no, not really has there been anything like D-Day, happened once, won't happen again.

Need to know anymore about WWII, feel free to ask me, I know so much about it, well, i don't know much about the attack on japan that much, like the battles in the pacific, but the holocaust, i know soo much.

Answer 5

Almost all American amphibious landings in WWII had a D-Day -- and an H-Hour! (I've never heard it referred to as Disembarcation Day as another poster posits. The D stands for "day" and the H stands for "hour". Go figure.)

There was a D-Day in North Africa (Operation Torch in Morocco) in November, 1942; another one in Sicily (Operation Husky) in 1943; and another at Anzio/Nettuno (Shingle) and Salerno (Avalanche) in Italy in 1943.

The most famous was in Normandy (Operations Neptune/Overlord: Gold, Juno, Sword, Utah and Omaha beaches) on 6 June 1944; and that was followed up on 15 August by another D-Day in the south of France between Nice and Toulon (Operations Anvil/Dragoon).

In the Pacific Theater there were too many to enumerate. Some that come to mind include Guadalcanal (1942), Tarawa, Kwajelein, Papua/New Guinea, Bouganville, Rabaul, Attu/Kiska, Makin, Majuro, Eniwetok, Saipan, Iwo Jima.

But not all had a D-Day. It was S-Day at Lingayen Gulf in the Philippines; J-Day at Tinian (whence the Enola Gay B-29 departed for Hiroshima sometime later); and L-Day at Okinawa. True to form, however, D-Day at Iwo Jima was 19 February 1945, and H-Hour was 0900.

And although I'm not quite sure, I believe MacArthur's bold amphibious landing at Inchon "behind the lines" in Korea (1950) also had a D-Day and H-Hour. There were a few amphibious landings by the Marines in the Vietnam War. One in particular -- staged for TV cameras at Da Nang -- had a D-Day, I believe. There was film of fully-equipped Marines getting their pants wet walking through the surf onto the beach.

Answer 6

It was a major Allied offensive attack against Germany. The Germans were actually expecting an attack like this, however, they believed it was coming from the Eastern side of France, not on Normandy Beach, which was one of the reasons why it was so successful.

It took place on June 5th, 1944.

Answer 7

It was the day that we landed on the beaches of Normandy, allowing our push into France and then later into Germany. It was a major turning point in WW2, and how we eventually won. Very scary to think what may have happened if D-Day had failed!

Answer 8

Disembarkation Day. It typically refers to the Normandy invasion on June 6,1944.

Several other D-Days have occured in WWII including Saipan, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Sicily, Italy, and Southern France (I can't remember where).

Also there was the Inchon landings during the Korean War. I'm sure there are many others but it means the day the troops hit the enemy beaches (planning to stay).

Answer 9

There are some very confused people answering your question. Those that say it was the Landings in Normandy on June 6 1944 have it right. Between the lot of them they have a semblance of the facts, BUT, not one of them deserves your vote for best answer, and that includes me.

Answer 10

I know that you have alot of answers, but I'll answer anyway. The term "D-Day" is used denote the first day of any military operation, no matter how big or small. That's it. The term is used for any operation, not just the invasion of Europe, as other posters have mentioned.

No matter what others may tell you, the "D" does not stand for anything, nor does the "H" in "H-Hour."

Operation Overlord (the invasion of Europe) is most commonly referred to as "D-Day" because for many people, it is the most famous.

Answer 11

D-day, June 6th, when allied troops stormed the beaches of Normandy