H-hour
Example Sentences
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Stormed Utah Beach at H-hour on D-Day as part of the 4th Infantry Division.
From Washington Post
Getting from one side to the other meant a H-hour ferry ride or a roundabout inland route of some 100 miles.
From Time Magazine Archive
At last, after the logistical errors are rectified, the children mollified and the milkman notified, the camper sets his H-hour for some occult reason at 6 o'clock the next morning.
From Time Magazine Archive
Followed by a few hardy Hollywood extras, he went smashing ashore even before H-hour had struck, and broke the first hole in Hitler's Atlantic wall.
From Time Magazine Archive
We breathed the standard helium-oxygen mix at normal pressure until about four hours before H-hour.
From The Trouble with Telstar by John Schoenherr
