re: when did Normandy become THE D-Day because I was wondering if before they knew of it
Have you tried looking here for more info? There's also a Countdown to D-Day timeline on the same site.
Pretty much, they had decided D-Day would be June 5 in May 1944 but with the unpredictable weather, they changed the date on June 4 (confirmed June 5). There's also a small item about a coded message to the French Resistance on June 5, at the bottom of the page if you want to use it for part of Susan's story.
Also, looking through Time magazine's online archive... the first D-Day mention I could find associated with Normandy is in their June 12, 1944 issue. One is a mention in a question to the magazine by a reader here and another about how it affects Wall Street here. From the abstracts, it does seem like it has already become THE D-Day a week after the landings.
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Have you tried looking here for more info? There's also a Countdown to D-Day timeline on the same site.
Pretty much, they had decided D-Day would be June 5 in May 1944 but with the unpredictable weather, they changed the date on June 4 (confirmed June 5). There's also a small item about a coded message to the French Resistance on June 5, at the bottom of the page if you want to use it for part of Susan's story.
Also, looking through Time magazine's online archive... the first D-Day mention I could find associated with Normandy is in their June 12, 1944 issue. One is a mention in a question to the magazine by a reader here and another about how it affects Wall Street here. From the abstracts, it does seem like it has already become THE D-Day a week after the landings.