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
H-hour on the beaches, code-named Gold, Juno, Sword, Omaha and Utah, came at 6:30 a.m.
From Time Magazine Archive
With room in its hangar for 30 troop-carrying helicopters, the ship is designed to put two reinforced Marine rifle companies ashore by H-hour plus three minutes.
From Time Magazine Archive
It begins at H-hour, chronicles the fighting until the First Army turned and drove for Cherbourg.
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
