John Ross

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Forecast for D-Day: And the Weatherman Behind Ike's Greatest GambleHardcover, 15 April 2014

Forecast for D-Day: And the Weatherman Behind Ike's Greatest Gamble
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Print Length
272 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Lyons Press
Date Published
15 Apr 2014
ISBN-10
0762786639
ISBN-13
9780762786633

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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.

Product Details

Author:
John Ross
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
15 April 2014
Dimensions:
23.11 x 15.49 x 2.54 cm
Genre:
1940's
ISBN-10:
0762786639
ISBN-13:
9780762786633
Language:
English
Location:
Guilford
Pages:
272
Publisher:
Weight:
521.63 gm

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