What Does D in D Day Mean?

We have been blessed in the United States by many TV programs and News reports about D-Day. I even preached about the ways our Allies were able to deceive Hitler's spies and make them think that the landing spot was to be Calais instead of Normandy. Near Dover, England across from Calais, thousands of fake airplanes were construced of wood and tanks were built of rubber and filledw with air to fool the Nazis.

The deception worked and we surprised the enemy brilliantly. (The moral for me was, "Do not believe every spirit but test the spirits.") I was extremely blessed to have a visitors in the congregation tell me that he had been in the company that constructed those fake airplanes.

Those who have imagined majestic words like "Demolition" or "Deliverance" or maybe even "Doom", will be disappointed by the facts. The D in D-Day plainly stands for "Day".

That makes the actual word "Day-Day".

It simply means the specific date of the planned invasion of a foreign country, which is of course top secret and cannot be uttered in public. So a stand-in is used: D-Day.