Talk:D-Day (military term)

message: The reasoning for D standing for 'day' is laid out explicitly here, where it says: "When used in combination with figures and plus or minus signs, these terms indicate the length of time preceding or following a specific action. Thus, H-3 means 3 hours before H-hour, and D+3 means 3 days after D-day. H+75 minutes means H-hour plus 1 hour and 15 minutes." It makes perfect sense. Kuitan (talk) 10:10, 5 June 2014 (UTC)

message: I think that the recently added disambiguation statement about a character in the movie Animal House doesn't belong here.  I was thinking about being bold and reverting it, but I decided to see if there is consensus about this.  Any feedback? --Rogerd 23:11, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I see that User:Wwoods moved it to the "see also" section.  I think that is better--Rogerd 00:58, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disambiguation to Animal House character 

message: I think you should lock this article, because of recent vandalism.
Dalt 19:14, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lock The Article 

message: this section is effectively offtopic as it is spefically about the normandy landings rather than the military term D Day. While tthe last couple of sentences in this section are humorous the subject is off topic. Looking at the history of this article and the fact it already seems a concise definition of the term, it should be locked. 
I am also deleting the Normandy graphic and the history guy reference link for the same reasons.
 Dondilly 20:01, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Normandy Beach Invasion Summary 

message: That is a very bad way of stating that this is the way that commanders of the various armed forces commanders use to avoid giving a date upon which an operation is due to commence. [[User:Londff4ferm in a specific domain - so if they were marketing D-Day cleaning products (for example) they could have a valid trademark that would prevent anyone else selling cleaning products with that name. But that wouldn't prevent other uses of the term. It's also possible that the trademark is unenforceable anyway. DJ Clayworth (talk) 15:09, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: D-Day Intro

message: What Is D-Day ?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.195.217.128 (talk) 00:09, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: What is D-Day?

message: The D in D-day refers to deployment. The H in H-hour refers to hostilities. For example, on June 6,1944, D-day initiated the commencement of hostilities for the combat commands involved in the invasion. During the first gulf war, D-day occurred several months before H-hour.
:Not actually true. The D refers to Day, and the H refers to Hour. If you have a reference for D-day occurring before H-hour feel free to let us know about it, but remember that there can be several D-days and H-hours for different ops - so there could be a D-day for the deployment operation (and an H-hour) but there can also be a D-day and an H-hour for the operation that initiates hostilities. There is a reference above, which I'm copying here that explains. DJ Clayworth (talk) 15:07, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Veteran input to meaning of D-day 

message: There seems to be a lot of debate about the meaning of D in D-Day. It appears that, back in WWI when the term is first recorded (in conjunction with H-Hour), it was indeed apparently just a simple way to come up with a name to use instead of a specific date when an operation was going to begin. One can imagine that when developng the operations plan, that speicifc dates for achieving various objectives had to be referenced to some point in time - this is expected to happen 3 days after the operation begins, that is supposed to occur on 5 days after it starts, etc. Of course, weather or other complications might mean the actual date for the beginning of the operation might change so rather than have to redo these plans with every change in start date, it would be a lot easier to put everything down relative to a placeholder for the actual date (not to mention being good for operational security in case the plans fall into the wrong hands). D-Day as is "D for day" is an obvious choice, just as H is for having an arbitrary reference to the hour for the start of the operation. In printed documents, briefings, etc., it would be natural to, as in the example above, talk about D+3, D+5, etc.
Of course, in a theater, commaand, etc. where more than one operation is being planned or if several operations are going to be related to each other or even just executed during the same time frame, using D-Day and H-Hour for all of them would be confusing in the extreme - thus, in the Pacific, where there were lots of landings, one sees other shorthand abbreviations beyond D-Day (X-Day for the Olympic landing, Y-Day for the subsequent Coronet landing, etc.). 
Thus, while the D in D-Day may have originally had some special significance (if only as convenient shorthand for Day), there's nothing really special about it and indeed as operations become more complicated other arbitrary letters (X-Day, Y-Day, etc.) were used instead.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:801:4280:A710:FDCC:1F77:F0F1:7964 (talk) 22:30, 12 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Overthinking D-Day 

message: I seem to remember that D-Day is known to be the 4th day after the initially planned attack. It's the 4th day because the days A,B,C had unsuitable conditions for the invasion.Is this correct?
Darky65 09:37, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: No, I don't think so, the whole point is that the actual date for "D-Day" is not set until it is decided to put the operation into effect, it's just there as a placeholder in the operational orders, with all other dates defined relative to it.  David Underdown 11:14, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Previous days? 

message: Months before the invasion on the beaches of Normandy, France, the soldiers were told the weather would be perfect, but when they got to sea, a storm began. They were lucky, though, because the storm made the French soldiers think that no one would attack, so they weren't on guard. Their German commander left to visit his family back in Germany, so that left the other soldiers off guard. When the allies got there, it was easy for them to attack. That was the turning point in the war.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.11.133.49 (talk) 14:30, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  D-Day 

message: D-Day was the invasion of normandy and if im correct this is not a generic term because ist signifing a specific event  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.59.44.124 (talk) 16:53, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  how can you not know im 14 and i now a-z of dday  

message: the all have DIFERENT initials  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.59.44.124 (talk) 16:56, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  there is one D-Day 

message: D DAY was not the turning point Because the Battle of Brittian was, once we gained air SUpperiorty we had turrned the tied
many people died at omaha the tide was down so they had 100 yds of no cover hence the name the longest day at omaha they hit the weakest point if the wall if they had hit there intended target they would have all died. and the tanks only 6 of the 32 tanks made it a shore God was with them that day they were lucky.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.59.44.124 (talk) 17:00, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  dday  

message: Judging from the titles of the articles that link to D-Day (hundreds of them), nearly all of them mean the day of the Normandy Landings. It would make sense for the link to D-Day to take them directly to where they expect to go, not to an article on the generic meaning of the term "D-Day". I therefore propose renaming this article to "D-Day (military term)", making D-Day a redirect to Normandy Landings and adding a link back to D-Day (military term) from a hatnote on Normandy Landings. Colonies Chris (talk) 14:32, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 

message: Please change:
When referencing a local time zone, "Z-8" ("zulu minus eight") refers to Universal Co-ordinated Time (formerly Greenwich Mean Time) minus 8 hours, or 8 hours behind UTC. "Z+10" means 10 hours ahead of or earlier than UTC. This is because the time zone at zero degrees longitude is designated by the letter Z, which is phonetically designated as 'zulu', there being 24 principal time zones world wide, each designated by a distinct letter of the roman alphabet. Thus, for example, Vancouver Canada local time is 1 o'clock in the morning when it is 9 o'clock in London UK, since Pacific Standard Time is Z-8 (9-8 = 1 in this example).
To:
When referencing a local time zone, "Zulu" refers to Universal Co-ordinated Time (formerly Greenwich Mean Time). For other zones see list of military time zones.
Because the section is wrong. List of military time zones are correct.
Gryphonis (talk) 09:56, 6 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit request from Gryphonis, 6 October 2010 

message: What is meant by the reference to angie leigh?Longinus876 (talk) 14:40, 19 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  angie leigh  

message: The article says that D-day was attempted by the allied forces to free Europe from 'Nazi.', which should obviously be changed to either Nazi-Germany or Nazi-/German occupation for the sake of proper syntax.
Mark Kamphuis (talk) 15:31, 12 February 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Done Cannolis (talk) 15:58, 12 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 12 February 2016