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

Some 30 hours before H-hour General Eisenhower made the great decision.

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 Schoenherr, John