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Vor 3 Tagen · Maureen Sweeney's weather report helped sway Eisenhower's decision to delay D-Day. As a young woman growing up in County Kerry, Maureen Flavin Sweeney dreamed of moving to the United States ...
Vor 19 Stunden · Maureen Sweeney forecast an impending storm from Blacksod station in 1944, which changed the timing of the D-Day landings and ultimately secured victory for the Allies. At 1pm on 3 June 1944, the ...
Vor 5 Tagen · They were not wrong, but they had caused alarm for those planning the imminent D-Day landings. Some 5,000 ships and 11,000 aircraft had transported 156,000 Allied troops in readiness for the ...
Vor einem Tag · As we mark the 80th anniversary of the Normandy Landings on 6 June 1944, Guy Walters shines a light on the forgotten heroines who helped turn the Second World War in the Allies’ favour. I t is ...
Vor 2 Tagen · As the 80th anniversary of D-Day approaches on June 6, hundreds of thousands of women who worked behind the scenes in crucial non-combat jobs for the Allied forces are finally getting the ...
Vor einem Tag · Now 98, and in Normandy, France, for this week’s 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings, Krier is still proudly promoting the vital roles played by women in the June 6, 1944, invasion and ...
Vor 19 Stunden · The Irish woman who gave the weather forecast ahead of the D-Day Landings was ‘just glad she got it right on the day’, her son has said. “She saw there was a front coming in from the Atlantic - we are on the west coast and we get the first of the weather coming in.”"I wish I could tell him I have never taken his sacrifice for granted ...
