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Forecast for D-day - And The Weatherman Behind Ike's Greatest Gamble (Hardcover)
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Forecast for D-day - And The Weatherman Behind Ike's Greatest Gamble (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R517
Discovery Miles 5 170
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Monday, June 5, had long been planned for launching D-day, the
start of the campaign to liberate Nazi-held Western Europe. Yet the
fine weather leading up to the greatest invasion the world would
ever see was deteriorating rapidly. Would it hold long enough for
the bombers, the massed armada, and the soldiers to secure
beachheads in Normandy? That was the question, and it was up to
Ike's chief meteorologist, James Martin Stagg, to give him the
answer."" On the night of June 4, the weather hung on a knife's
edge. The three weather bureaus advising Stagg--the US Army Air
Force, the Royal Navy, and the British Met Office--each provided
differing forecasts. Worse, leading meteorologists in the USAAF and
Met Office argued stormily. Stagg had only one chance to get it
right. Were he wrong, thousands of men would perish, secrecy about
when and where the Allies would land would be lost, victory in
Europe would be delayed for a year, and the Communists might well
take control of the continent.
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