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
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
With room in its hangar for 30 troop-carrying helicopters, the ship is designed to put two reinforced Marine rifle companies ashore by H-hour plus three minutes.
From Time Magazine Archive
Only 15 minutes before H-hour, the picture grew shaky, wobbled, then disappeared.
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 Schoenherr, John
