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Jun 2024
13m 45s

Forecasting D-Day

THE LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS
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The D-Day planners said that everything would depended the weather. They needed 'a quiet day with not more than moderate winds and seas and not too much cloud for the airmen, to be followed by three more quiet days'. But who would make the forecast? The Meteorological Office? The US Air Force? The Royal Navy? In the event, it was all three. In this diary pie ... Show More
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