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

With Operation Overlord in motion, there was nothing much for Ike to do but wait nervously for H-hour.

From Time Magazine Archive

So complete was Big Three solidarity that a General Motors public relations man was overheard phoning his Chrysler counterpart to tell him that H-hour for the release of the statements had come.

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

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