2007-06-06 03:21:27 · 8 answers · asked by tiva 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Other - Holidays
The "D" in D-Day originally represented nothing other than to create a name for the day a planned assualt/attack was to take place by adding a D. Similarly, the hour the attack was to start was H-Hour.
After World War II, it became synonomous with the allied assualt on occupied France on June 6th, 1944. Furthermore, it became popular history that the D stood for debarkation. This is a post World War II interpretation however and not one that had anything to do with the original creation of the term D-Day.
2007-06-06 03:30:14 · answer #1 · answered by JOhn M 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The D doesn't mean anything. It stands for the day an attack is going to take place. The most famous of these was the storm on Normandy on June 6, 1944.
2016-05-17 23:51:06 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually "D-day" was used to signify any day a significant battle was begun. Because of the size of the invasion and all, the "D-day" on June 6 is the biggest and the most remembered, and the name has stuck with that particular D-Day.
2007-06-06 03:30:09 · answer #3 · answered by jack of all trades 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Decision day!!! They went the June 5, 1944 but the tides were to high so they had to go June 6!
2007-06-06 04:44:35 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
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."
2007-06-06 03:32:29 · answer #5 · answered by dawgie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
D-Day stands for Dooms Day. Meaning that this was the day that would either win the war or lose the war. Can you imagine if the Allies would have failed the invasion.
2007-06-06 03:32:54 · answer #6 · answered by Alberto B 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
If i remember correctly, it just stood for "day". Day-day. It was six years before I was born, but I seem to remember reading that somewhere.
2007-06-06 03:30:48 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It stands for "day". Kinda weird, eh? Day-Day.
2007-06-06 03:28:42 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋