variants
or D-day
: a day set for launching an operation
specifically
: June 6, 1944, on which Allied forces began the invasion of France in World War II
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The podcast also will talk about Ford being sent by the U.S. military to Normandy Beach in 1944 to film D-Day and create an on-the-ground film detailing the invasion.
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Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Apr. 2024
While the clock struck midnight to start the new year of 1944, two clandestine operators crept across the darkened shores of key Normandy beaches, the beaches that would be the targets for D-Day.
—Rachel Lance, WIRED, 16 Apr. 2024
This group helped make the Allied landings on D-Day possible.
—Rachel Lance, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Apr. 2024
He was documented experiencing writer's block, discussing those struggles with fellow musicians and looking back on traumatic memories to provide writing material for D-Day.
—Sadie Bell, Peoplemag, 11 Dec. 2023
Blake Snell is good, but the Giants are taking the biggest gamble since D-Day.
—Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Mar. 2024
As D-Day, and an end, approaches, the legendary all-Black Tuskegee Airmen are finally introduced, which feels a little like tokenism considering how prominently the Black actors are featured in promotional materials.
—Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 27 Jan. 2024
Starring Tom Hanks, Vin Diesel, and Matt Damon alongside a dazzling ensemble cast, the film follows one unit's heroic mission to bring a private home after his three brothers perished in action on D-Day.
—Robert English, EW.com, 27 Oct. 2023
That was just in time for Taylor to be in place help cover historic events ranging from D-Day to the atomic bombs dropped on Japan at the end of World War II.
—Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 13 Jan. 2024
Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Apr. 2024
While the clock struck midnight to start the new year of 1944, two clandestine operators crept across the darkened shores of key Normandy beaches, the beaches that would be the targets for D-Day.
—Rachel Lance, WIRED, 16 Apr. 2024
This group helped make the Allied landings on D-Day possible.
—Rachel Lance, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Apr. 2024
He was documented experiencing writer's block, discussing those struggles with fellow musicians and looking back on traumatic memories to provide writing material for D-Day.
—Sadie Bell, Peoplemag, 11 Dec. 2023
Blake Snell is good, but the Giants are taking the biggest gamble since D-Day.
—Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Mar. 2024
As D-Day, and an end, approaches, the legendary all-Black Tuskegee Airmen are finally introduced, which feels a little like tokenism considering how prominently the Black actors are featured in promotional materials.
—Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 27 Jan. 2024
Starring Tom Hanks, Vin Diesel, and Matt Damon alongside a dazzling ensemble cast, the film follows one unit's heroic mission to bring a private home after his three brothers perished in action on D-Day.
—Robert English, EW.com, 27 Oct. 2023
That was just in time for Taylor to be in place help cover historic events ranging from D-Day to the atomic bombs dropped on Japan at the end of World War II.
—Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 13 Jan. 2024
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