Originally Posted by
Asturias56
"Hope Britain proles realized how brutal and important Normandy was. Most proles here in the Colonies just remember a movie or two."
D-Day is remembered as a great victory - the word has entered the English language.) played down.
Quite right. For a very long time however, I wondered what the "D" stood for, until I later discovered it was simply the "D" of "Day.. In French D-Day is not Jour-D but Jour-J.