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TIL of the D-Day(June 6) Crossword Panic of 1944 in which, in the 35 days before the invasion, 5 obscure, top-secret code words appeared in the Daily Telegraph puzzles..The words ‘Utah, Omaha, Overlord, Mulberry and Neptune’ triggered a MI5 investigation.

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