D-Day 80th Anniversary 0 Pound Note

  
  
  
D-Day 80th Anniversary 0 Pound Note
  

Product Code:  GBAA-2024-3
Circulation:       5000

  
The D-Day 80th Anniversary 0 Pound Note is dedicated to D-Day, which in the military is the day on which a combat attack or operation is to be initiated. The best-known D-Day is during World War II, on June 6, 1944 - the day of the Normandy landings - initiating the Western Allied effort to liberate western Europe from Nazi Germany. However, many other invasions and operations had a designated D-Day, both before and after that operation. D-Day for the invasion of Normandy by the Allies was originally set for June 5, 1944, but bad weather and heavy seas caused U.S. Army General Dwight David Eisenhower to delay until June 6 and that date has been popularly referred to ever since by the short title "D-Day". Because of the connotation with the invasion of Normandy, planners of later military operations sometimes avoided the term to prevent confusion. For example, Douglas MacArthur's invasion of Leyte began on "A-Day", and the invasion of Okinawa began on "L-Day". The Allies' proposed invasions of Japan would have begun on "X-Day" (on Kyūshū, scheduled for November 1945) and "Y-Day" (on Honshū, scheduled for March 1946). Read more