The D-Day Normandy landings on June 6, 1944 were costly but successful ; a month later the invasion of Southern France took place, and control of the forces which took part in the southern invasion passed from the AFHQ to the SHAEF.

American paratroopers also famously used a device known as a " cricket " on D-Day in place of a password system as a temporarily unique method of identification ; one metallic click given by the device in lieu of a password was to be met by two clicks in reply.

< imagemap > File: 1940s decade montage. png | Above title bar: events during World War II ( 1939 – 1945 ): From left to right: Troops in an LCVP landing craft approaching " Omaha " Beach on " D-Day "; Adolf Hitler visits Paris, soon after the Battle of France ; The Holocaust occurred during the war as Nazi Germany carried out a programme of systematic state-sponsored genocide, during which approximately six million European Jews were killed ; The Japanese attack on the American naval base of Pearl Harbor launches the United States into the war ; An Observer Corps spotter scans the skies of London during the Battle of Britain ; The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are the first uses of nuclear weapons, killing over a quarter million people and leading to the Japanese surrender ; Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu signs the Instrument of Surrender on behalf of the Japanese Government, on board USS Missouri, effectively ending the war.

The Grand Comics Database does not list the job, which may or may not have been signed ; Miller's first listed work is the six-page " Deliver Me From D-Day ", by writer Wyatt Gwyon, in Weird War Tales No. 64 ( June 1978 ).

Estimates of the casualties among the Resistance are made harder by the dispersion of movements at least until D-Day, but credible estimates start from 8, 000 dead in action ; 25, 000 shot to death ; and several tens of thousands deported, of which 27, 000 died in death camps.

During World War II further camps were built ; these were first used for enemy aliens, then for U. S. forces prior to D-Day, and finally for Nazi German and Italian prisoners of war.

* Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett: a German spy in 1944 nearly succeeds in foiling D-Day ;

In World War II the regiment fought as part of the British Expeditionary Force in France, forming part of the rearguard at Dunkirk ; in North Africa ; Italy and in France, following the D-Day landings, and as Chindits in Burma.

New York Ship's World War II production included all nine light carriers ( CVL ), built on light cruiser hulls ; the 35, 000-ton battleship ; and 98 LCTs ( Landing Craft, Tank ), many of which took part in the D-Day landings at Normandy.

* Rangers Lead The Way, Pointe-du-Hoc D-Day 1944 ; Steven J. Zaloga.

D-Day ; The Greatest Invasion, A People's History.

Such events have included centennials and bicentennials ; Waitangi Day ; the openings of Commonwealth and other games ; anniversaries of Māori treaty signings ; awards ceremonies ; D-Day commemorations ; anniversaries of the monarch's accession ; and the like.

Too many people think that the primary purpose of a higher education is to help you make a living ; ;

The strong feeling is certainly there ; ;

Since the Supreme Court's decision of that year this is more doubtful ; ;

Their own easier, slower tempo is especially dear to Southerners ; ;

BMEWS intelligence is simultaneously flashed to NORAD ( North American Air Defense Command ) in Colorado Springs, Colorado, for interpretation ; ;

They include the Navy's Atlantic Command at Norfolk, Virginia, which is in contact with the Polaris subs ; ;

The aborigine is not deceived ; ;

In spots such as the elbows and knees the second skin is worn off and I realized the aborigines were much darker than they appeared ; ;

For one thing, there is a natural belt of rock across the river bed ; ;

for example, the mode of bravery to this anonymous folk poem: `` They brought me news that Spring is in the plains And Ahmad's blood the crimson tulip stains ; ;

`` It is easy for you to talk '' ; ;

It is interesting, however, that despite this strong upsurge in Southern writing, almost none of the writers has forsaken the firmly entrenched concept of the white-suited big-daddy colonel sipping a mint julep as he silently recounts the revenue from the season's cotton and tobacco crops ; ;

This is not to say that the South is no longer agrarian ; ;

In reply to this the French sovereign dispatched Andrew as his ambassador to Güyük Khan ; with Longjumeau went his brother William ( also a Dominican ) and several others — John Goderiche, John of Carcassonne, Herbert " Le Sommelier ," Gerbert of Sens, Robert ( a clerk ), a certain William, and an unnamed clerk of Poissy.

Gallienus returned in 263 or 265 and, as even Historia Augusta admits, was entirely successful, finally besieging Postumus in an unnamed Gallic city ; however, during the siege, he was severely wounded by an arrow and had to leave the field.

Mindaugas had at least two wives, Morta and Morta's sister, whose name is unknown, and possibly an earlier wife ; her existence is presumed because two children – a son named Vaišvilkas and an unnamed daughter married to Svarn in 1255 – were already leading independent lives when Morta's children were still young.

Moore coined the term " naturalistic fallacy " to describe arguments of this form ; he explains ( in § 12 ) that the fallacy involved is an instance of a more general type of fallacy, which he leaves unnamed, but which we might call the " definitional fallacy ".

This species has been recorded from Orange County, California, near Westminster ; near a fish farm in Conejos County and the South Platte drainage, Colorado ; several counties in Florida ; Hawaii ; an unnamed tributary to Big Branch Bayou in Lacombe, Louisiana ; Beaverhead Rock Pond ( Madison County ), Montana ; Clark County, Nevada ; and Texas.

**** Osteolaemus tetraspis, dwarf crocodile ( There has been controversy whether or not this is actually two species ; recent ( 2010 ) DNA analysis indicate three distinct species: O. tetraspis, O. osborni, and a third currently unnamed.

John H. Blair ( spot news photography ) a special assignment photographer for UPI, 1978 ; An originally unnamed UPI photographer whose identity was withheld because of risk in revolutionary Iran.

; Kill Doctor Lucky: The Director's Cut ( 2002 ): Contains the original board for " Kill Doctor Lucky " and an unnamed, back-printed second board similar to the Craigdarroch expansion board.

" Roger was however mistaken ; he knew that an unnamed archbishop of Tyre was present and assumed it must have been the William whose chronicle he possessed, although the archbishop in question was actually William's successor Joscius.

Voldemort has also been compared with other characters within fiction, for example Sauron from The Lord of the Rings ; they are, during the time when the main plot takes place, seeking to recover their lost power after having been considered dead or at least no longer a threat, and are also so feared that they are sometimes unnamed.

Many of Smaug's attributes and behaviour in The Hobbit derive directly from the unnamed " old night-scather " in Beowulf: great age ; winged, fiery, and reptilian form ; a stolen barrow within which he lies on his hoard ; disturbance by a theft ; and violent airborne revenge on the lands all about.

* George Pontifex ( c. 1765-1838 ; son of Old John and Ruth Pontifex ; married c. 1792 to unnamed woman who died 1805 ).

; George Pontifex's third child ; marries & has unnamed son early 1837 )

* Ted ( born 1870s ; son of Ernest and an unnamed mistress.

Each day he found himself thinking less often of Ann ; ;

For several weeks we eyed one another almost like sparring partners, and then one day Uncle was slightly indisposed and stayed home ; ;

At four-o'clock, or four-thirty, the coming of the newsboy marked the end of the day ; ;

Almost from that day, until his death, Olgivanna was to stay at his side ; ;

Next day, word came that Miriam was not going through with the divorce ; ;

It is indeed true, as stated in the famous novel of our day, `` For Whom The Bell Tolls '', that `` no man is an island, entirely of itself ; ;

By the second day Michelangelo began to worry ; ;

It hung in all her day clothes, sweet and strong ; ;

`` He's used it every day ; ;

Courses are provided mainly for post high school day programs ; ;

The first slanting rays of the new day cannot yet dispel all the dark shadows which lie across the Aegean world ; ;

six hours of manual labor a day for all but a handful of magistrates and scholars, and careful measures to prevent anyone from shirking ; ;

All this is standard equipment for a man of your day ; ;