Storm Front in Mayo
Storm Front in Mayo

Storm Front in Mayo

May 28, 201953 min7.5EN
DocumentaryHistoryTV Movie

Ireland, June 1944. The crucial decision about the right time to start Operation Overlord on D-Day comes to depend on the readings taken by Maureen Flavin, a young girl who works at a post office, used as a weather station, in Blacksod, in County Mayo, the westernmost promontory of Europe, far from the many lands devastated by the iron storms of World War II.

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Eva Sweeney
Eva SweeneyYoung Maureen Flavin Sweeney
Colin Wright
Colin WrightGeneral Dwight D. Eisenhower
Mike Johnson
Mike JohnsonCaptain James Stagg
John Downes
John DownesMet Éireann Telephone Operator
Antony Beevor
Antony BeevorSelf - Historian
Robert Gerwarth
Robert GerwarthSelf - Historian
Susan Eisenhower
Susan EisenhowerSelf - Eisenhower's Granddaughter
Joseph Skelly
Joseph SkellySelf - Historian
Richard G. Trefry
Richard G. TrefrySelf - Retired US Army Lt. General
Maureen Flavin Sweeney
Maureen Flavin SweeneySelf - Weather Observer (1944)