9 Key Military Code Names of D-Day

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By Yohana Desta2014-06-06 10:02:51 UTC

Overlord, Bolero, Gold and Sword — these are just a few of the code names used on June 6, 1944, known as D-Day.

Seventy years after troops stormed the beaches of Normandy, the nation remembers the World War II Allied operation. As is military custom, there were hundreds of code names and nicknames used to carefully plan the invasion.

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D-Day itself is technically a nickname. It's a military term that stands for the day and hour of a combat attack or operation. However, the moniker became so widespread after Normandy that the general public still uses it to refer to that battle.

Here are nine key code names that were used for D-Day.

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Topics: code names, d-day, etymology, normandy, U.S., US & World, World, world war 2