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It doesn't stand for anything. It was just put in there for no particular reason.
wow, really? DOOMS DAY. Nn that's not what it means... It means Demolition. Demolition Day. Stop putting up information you know is false.
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 13y agoIt doesn't really stand for anything. It just means, the day on which the military operation will begin. It's been used for many different missions but is generally only referred to as the Allied landings in Normandy on June 6, 1944.
It's standard military parlance to refer to planned operations in this way: D stands for the date of the event, and H is the planned time. The operation commences on D day, at H hour. Some things may be scheduled to occur (for example) by D-2, or two days before the event itself. If something that absolutely must happen by D-2 is delayed, whenever it occurs is still D-2, the date of the event is just changed to be two days from then.
It's similar to a NASA rocket launch. The actual time of launch is not known until it happens, so it's simply called T. "T minus 5 minutes" means "we plan to launch in five minutes, unless something goes wrong." If problems do arise, they simply stop the count ("T minus two minutes and holding", meaning "we're waiting on something, and we're ready to launch two minutes from whenever whatever it is we're waiting on happens.") Even after the launch, T is still used, since it makes more sense to think in terms of "the first burn is scheduled to stop 90 seconds after launch" ... at T plus 90 seconds ... than to try to do the actual math in your head ("Let's see, launch was at 1:17:05 PM EST, so the burn stops at 1:17:95... which is, let me think, 1:19:05... no wait, 1:18:35, shoot, I should have stopped it twenty seconds ago.")
For similar reasons, D is used to represent the start in military operations. That way if its delayed, you don't need to change all the unit orders to reflect the new actual date, they simply know "we have to be at objective A by two days from when we landed". If you had listed it in the orders as "June 8", then if the landing didn't take place until June 11, you'd have mass confusion as unit commanders tried to work out whether their orders referred to the new, revised schedule, or the old one.
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∙ 16y agoD just stands for Day
Similarly in the phrase "H hour on D day" H stands for hour.
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∙ 10y agoIt really stands for nothing. It is just a day that a specified military activity is to take place. But some do say it just stands for day.
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∙ 12y agoThe D means nothing.
I always thought that D-day was short for decision day or something similar, but according to dictionary.reference.com, the D is just short for "day".
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∙ 9y agoIt doesn't have an official meaning. Some people think it means different things. Currently, it is commonly meant as "Day". So D-Day means Day-Day.
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∙ 14y agod stands for love peace and happyness
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What does the letter d in d day stand for?
The day of the landings
The 1944 Allied invasion in France was known as?
D-day.The "D" does not stand for "Deliverance", "Doom", "Debarkation" or similar words. In fact, it does not stand for anything. The "D" is derived from the word "Day". "D-Day" means the day on which a military operation begins. The term "D-Day" has been used for many different operations, but it is now generally only used to refer to the Allied landings in Normandy on 6 June 1944.
What does D stand for?
Several possibilites exist. Two of the most likely are..... = - = - = If you mean what number is represented by the Roman numeral D - it is 500. = - = - = If you mean what does the first 'D' in D-Day stand for, it just stood for "day", just as the 'H' in H-hour meant the hour at which the D-Day operations all began. There are stories that various days had been chosen as possible invasion dates, and were code-named A-Day, B-Day, C-Day etc. but this is untrue. There was only ever D-Day and it moved backwards and forwards as circumstnaces changed, and eventually June 6th was settled on.
What does the D stand for in D-Day?
Although there are a lot of interesting theories (“departure,” “deliverance,” and “doom,” to name a few), it doesn't really stand for anything. The term "D-Day" has been used by the U.S. military since at least 1918 as an “alliterative placeholder” for the day an operation is supposed to take place. This means that although we use it to refer to the invasion of Normandy in World War II, there's actually been a lot of D-Days.The term was part of a larger system for keeping track of dates: D-3, for example, means three days before D-Day, and D+3 means three days after.
What does D stand for in radio code?
Delta
What does the letter d in d day stand for?
The day of the landings
What does the d of d day stand for?
d for dad
Does the D in D-day stand for decoration?
No, it just emphasises Day.
Why does d-day stand for Decimal Day?
Departure.
What does DA14 stand for?
D stands for day
What does the term D Day stand for?
The D in D-Day actually doesn't stand for anything. It was a name that was assigned for the day that the Allies landed on the Northern coast of France. It is assigned many names such as "Death" and "Destruction".
What does the d stand for?
this may sound strange but it means Day-day
What does the d day stand for?
"D" in d-day stands for . . . 'day', and it refers to the day on which a major war attack will start. If it is capitalized, like "D-Day", then it refers to the Allies 1944 invasion of Europe in World War II.
Does the d in d-day stand for dooms?
The "D" in D-Day has no meaning at all. D-Day is and Army term for a military opperation date. The "H" in H-Hour also has no meaning. They were randomly selected.
Does D-Day stand for Desegnated day?
No it just stands for Day. like H-Hour, D-Day just signifies the day upon which the event/operation will occur.
What did the d-day invasion stand for?
The D-Day invasion stood for the Allied powers hitting back at the Germans with forces on the ground.
What does the abbreviation d day stand for?
World war 1 and 2
