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Maureen Flavin was a postal clerk on a remote stretch of the Irish coast in 1944. On her 21st birthday, she helped determine the outcome of World War II.
She helped save General Eisenhower’s invasion from potential disaster, enabling the Allies to gain a foothold in France that proved essential to victory in World War II.
Maureen Sweeney's weather dispatch from the lighthouse was a crucial warning to Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, convincing him to change the date of the D-Day invasion and potentially saving the Allies' war effort in Europe. She passed away at age 100 on Dec. 17 at a nursing home in County Kerry, Ireland, where she was born.