Maureen Sweeney, who died on December 17 aged 100, was a postmistress on the west coast of Ireland who supplied the weather reports of a storm in the Atlantic that persuaded General Dwight D. Eisenhower to delay D-Day by 24 hours.
Maureen Sweeney, who has died aged 100, was a postmistress on the west coast of Ireland who supplied the weather reports of a storm in the Atlantic that persuaded Eisenhower to delay D-Day by 24 hours.
His full name is Forrest Carlisle Pogue Jr. At the top of his National Museum of the United States Army page: Master Sergeant, V Corps, September 17, 1912–October 6, 1996.
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