Operation Overlord
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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D-day, secretly known as Operation Overlord, was timed based on several factors, including the weather, the tides and the moonlight.
From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2026
My grandfather and his brother were standing in uniform in an English field just weeks before Operation Overlord.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 28, 2023
For days the villages and towns surrounding Omaha and Utah beaches have held parades, memorial events, flyovers and parachute demonstrations to build up to the annual celebration of D-Day, the launch of Operation Overlord.
From Washington Times • Jun. 5, 2023
D-Day was the start of Operation Overlord, the largest seaborne invasion in history, as about 160,000 troops from Britain, the US, Canada, France and other Allied nations landed in Normandy.
From BBC • Nov. 8, 2022
Code-named Operation Overlord, the invasion of Normandy was the largest land and sea attack in history.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012
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