Les Cleveland And The "D Day Dodgers" - More Songs We Sang In The New Zealand Services album flac

More Songs We Sang In The New Zealand Services ‎(10", Album). LA 3. Les Cleveland And The "D Day Dodgers". The Songs We Sang ‎(10", Album).

In the three months after D-Day, the Allies launched a series of additional offensives to try and advance further inland. These operations varied in success and the Allies faced strong and determined German resistance. In this cartoon, one man says to the other: 'When they call us D-Day Dodgers, which D-Day do they mean, old man?' 'D-Day' is a general term for the start date of any military operation - the 'D' stands for 'day'. It is often used when the exact date is either secret or not yet known. Some people thought soldiers serving in Italy were avoiding 'real combat' in France and called them 'D-Day Dodgers'. But troops in Italy had faced their own D-Days at Sicily, Salerno, and Anzio and were engaged in a dangerous and difficult advance up the.