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Baby born on D-Day, named Deeday

D-Day

A baby boy born in England on June 6, 1944, was named Deeday Rodney White — primarily because his father, Bert, kept hearing the term “D-Day” on the radio:

All his father reported hearing on the wireless the morning he was born was about the D-Day landings.

“He said to me all he could hear was ‘D-Day, D-Day, D-Day being drummed into my head’.”

Mr. White said initially the registrar refused to accept the name, saying the operation was top secret.

His father returned the next day with a copy of the Daily Mirror reporting the news of the D-Day landings on the French coast.

The name doesn’t have a hyphen on his birth certificate, but Mr. White prefers to write it “Dee-Day.”

And, even though he “hated” the name as a child, he became proud of it as an adult — so much so that he passed it down to his own son.

(Other D-Day babies include Dee Day, Invasia, and D-Day.)

Source: “D-Day: The baby named after the Normandy landings.” BBC News 5 Jun. 2019.

Baby born on D-Day, named D-Day

D-Day

I couple of years ago I posted about a baby who was born on D-Day — the day, during WWII, that Allied forces invaded northern France via the beaches of Normandy. She was named Dee Day.

Today marks the 69th anniversary of D-Day, so let’s check out another D-Day baby: Earl D-Day Samuel Campbell, who was born in Gallatin, Montana, on June 6, 1944.

Not only that, but he got married on the same date exactly 20 years later — June 6, 1964. (His wife’s name was Cheryl.)

Interesting fact: The “D” in D-Day may simply (and redundantly!) stand for “day,” according to PBS:

The Army began using the codes “H-hour” and “D-day” during World War I to indicate the time or date of an operation’s start. Military planners would write of events planned to occur on “H-hour” or “D-day” — long before the actual dates and times of the operations would be known, or in order to keep plans secret. And so the “D” may simply refer to the “day” of invasion.

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Image: Normandy Invasion (public domain)

Baby born on D-Day, named Dee Day

D-Day

Randolph and Alice Edwards of Norfolk, Virginia, welcomed a baby girl on June 6, 1944.

This was D-Day — the day Allied forces invaded northern France via beach landings in Normandy — so they named their daughter Dee Day Edwards.

Source: “Baby Girl Named Dee Day Edwards.” St. Joseph News-Press 6 Jun. 1944: 6.

Image: Normandy Invasion (public domain)