Operation Overlord
Britishnoun
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However, Operation Overlord required a very specific set of conditions: to take place shortly before dawn, on a rising tide and preferably on a night with a full moon.
From BBC • Jun. 3, 2024
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
Macron and Trump praised the soldiers, sailors and airmen who took part in the invasion, codenamed Operation Overlord, saying it was the turning point that ended Nazi tyranny and ensured peace for Europe.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 4, 2022
The project’s delays and disappointments are so numerous that the Silver Line’s Wikipedia entry is only modestly shorter than that of Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy in World War II.
From Washington Post • Nov. 12, 2021
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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