Storm Front in Mayo
2019 · Gerry Gregg · 53 min
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.
Eva SweeneyYoung Maureen Flavin SweeneyColin WrightGeneral Dwight D. EisenhowerMike JohnsonCaptain James StaggJohn DownesMet Éireann Telephone Operator
Antony BeevorSelf - HistorianRobert GerwarthSelf - HistorianSusan EisenhowerSelf - Eisenhower's GranddaughterJoseph SkellySelf - HistorianRichard G. TrefrySelf - Retired US Army Lt. GeneralMaureen Flavin SweeneySelf - Weather Observer (1944)Gerald FlemingSelf - MeteorologistDavid McCullaghSelf - JournalistCatherine RossSelf - British Met Office ArchivistJeremy GreenSelf - British Military Police ColonelRodney TeckSelf - Climate Researcher
Antony BeevorSelf - HistorianRobert GerwarthSelf - HistorianSusan EisenhowerSelf - Eisenhower's GranddaughterJoseph SkellySelf - HistorianRichard G. TrefrySelf - Retired US Army Lt. GeneralMaureen Flavin SweeneySelf - Weather Observer (1944)Gerald FlemingSelf - MeteorologistDavid McCullaghSelf - JournalistCatherine RossSelf - British Met Office ArchivistJeremy GreenSelf - British Military Police ColonelRodney TeckSelf - Climate Researcher
