Word: d-day
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...When D-day comes, Marshal Tito in Yugoslavia promises that his Partisan armies will take the offensive too, thrusting north into Germany's underside while our men batter at the western beaches...
...blow and frustrate all enemy efforts." Tokyo commentators added: "The day for a large-scale Japanese campaign is drawing close." As Tojo well knew, he was talking through his hat: he had about as much chance of deciding when the big events would come as Hitler had of deciding D-day in western Europe. He could only guess where the next big blow would fall...
...D-Day Jitters. Nazi-controlled radio stations nervously announced that D-day for invasion had arrived. Even the usually conservative communique of the German High Command picked up the theme...
Knockout When? Air power will maintain constant pressure on the Luftwaffe up to D-day and afterward. Against a foe who apparently hoards his remaining planes the Allies cannot expect to score a complete air knockout in advance...
...greatest air-bombardment week in history and Britain's unprecedented closing of diplomatic communication channels (TIME, April 24), made D-Day seem almost at hand. Yet the nation, though jittery with waiting, still waited confidently. Some of its leaders thought it was waiting too confidently...