World War II  The armed forces used codenames to refer to planning and execution of specific military operations to prepare for D-Day.  Operation Overlord was the codename for the Allied invasion of northwest Europe.  The assault phase of Operation Overlord was known as Operation Neptune.  This operation, which began on June 6, 1944, and ended on June 30, 1944, involved landing troops on beaches and all other associated supporting operations required to establish a beachhead in France.  By June 30th, the Allies had established a firm foothold in Normandy—850,279 men, 148,803 vehicles and 570,505 tons of supplies had been landed.  Operation Overlord also began on D-Day, and continued until Allied forces crossed the River Seine on August 19th.  The Battle of Normandy is the name given to the fighting in Normandy between DDay and the end of August 1944.  https://dod.defense.gov/Portals/1/features/2016/0516_dday/docs/d-day-fact-sheet-the-beaches.pdf 

The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during the Second World War.  Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day, it is the largest seaborne invasion in history.  The operation began the liberation of France, and the rest of Western Europe, and laid the foundations of the Allied victory on the Western Front.  Planning for the operation began in 1943.  In the months leading up to the invasion, the Allies conducted a substantial military deception, codenamed Operation Bodyguard, to mislead the Germans as to the date and location of the main Allied landings. The weather on the day selected for D-Day was not ideal, and the operation had to be delayed 24 hours; a further postponement would have meant a delay of at least two weeks, as the planners had requirements for the phase of the moon, the tides, and time of day, that meant only a few days each month were deemed suitable.  Adolf Hitler placed Field Marshal Erwin Rommel in command of German forces and developing fortifications along the Atlantic Wall in anticipation of an invasion.  US President Franklin D. Roosevelt placed Major General Dwight D. Eisenhower in command of Allied forces.  The invasion began shortly after midnight on the morning of 6 June with extensive aerial and naval bombardment as well as an airborne assault—the landing of 24,000 American, British, and Canadian airborne troops.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normandy_landings  

6½ Avenue is a north-south pedestrian passageway in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, running from West 51st to West 57th Streets between Sixth and Seventh Avenues.  The pedestrian-only avenue is a one-quarter mile (400 m) corridor of privately owned public spaces, such as open-access lobbies and canopied space, which are open during the day.  There are stop signs and stop ahead signs at six crossings between 51st and 56th Streets.  The mid-block crossing at 57th Street is equipped with a traffic light. At the crosswalk areas, there are sidewalk pedestrian ramps with textured surface and flexible delineators to prevent vehicles parking in the areas.   Each intersection along the thoroughfare has a street name sign that reads "6+¹⁄₂ AV" and the name of the cross street to officially mark the street name.  The mid-block stop signs are unusual for Manhattan, and the fractional avenue name is a new idea for the numbered street system of New York City.   In 2011, the Friends of Privately Owned Public Spaces proposed the creation of a six-block pathway from 51st to 57th Streets that would be mid-block between Sixth and Seventh Avenues to ease pedestrian traffic.  See pictures at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6%C2%BD_Avenue  Thank you, Muse reader!   

sub rosa (uncountable)  (US, law, slang)  Covert surveillance video used as evidence against applicants for workers' compensation to show they are not in fact (seriously) injured.

sub rosa (comparative more sub rosa, superlative most sub rosa)  Covertly or in secret; confidentially, privately, secretly. [from 17th c.] synonyms, antonyms ▲quotations ▼  Synonyms:  behind the scenes, under the rose, under the table  Antonyms:  above-board, openly, publicly   Not formally stated; implicit, tacit, unspoken.  Antonyms:  explicit, expressed, spoken   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sub_rosa#English   

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