The Overlord planners for the invasion of Europe in 1944 specified suitable weather (wind, cloud, tidal and moon conditions) for the assault landing; with...

Weather forecasting is the application of science and technology to predict the conditions of the atmosphere for a given location and time. People have...

Operation Overlord was the codename for the Battle of Normandy, the Allied operation that launched the successful liberation of German-occupied Western...

of the Royal Meteorological Society Surface weather analysis Weather forecasting for Operation Overlord Donald Norton Yates Fleming, James Rodger. "Sverre...

(born 1941); and Alexander Martin Stagg (born 1944). Weather forecasting for Operation Overlord Military meteorology Donald Norton Yates Aberdeen Press...

Operation Gambit was a part of Operation Neptune, the landing phase of the invasion of northern France (Operation Overlord) during the Second World War...

1944, the night before the Allied landings in Normandy, codenamed Operation Overlord. The Jedburgh teams normally parachuted in by night to meet a reception...

ships. D-Day – See also: Weather forecasting for Operation Overlord – Eisenhower had tentatively selected 5 June as the date for the assault. However, on...

6th Airborne Division between 5 June and 7 June 1944 as a part of Operation Overlord and the D-Day landings during the Second World War. The paratroopers...

historians, posing as an American journalist, ends up working for Operation Fortitude. Overlord, Underhand is a 2013 novel by American author Robert P. Wells...

Global Atmospheric Prediction System Weather forecasting for Operation Overlord John F. Fuller (1974), Weather and War, Military Airlift Command, U.S...

objective assigned to I Corps (Lieutenant-General John Crocker). Operation Overlord called for Second Army to secure the city and then form a front line from...

were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during the Second...

part of the 6th Airlanding Brigade of the 6th Airborne Division during Operation Tonga in the opening minutes of the Allied invasion of Normandy. Under...

meteorology support for the upcoming Allied Normandy Landings (see Weather forecasting for Operation Overlord), along with rival weather services from the...

against the Pas-de-Calais (rather than Normandy, the real target of Operation Overlord). As D-Day approached, Allied planners moved on to tactical deceptions...

of Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of north-west Europe. Preceded by Operation Martlet to secure the right flank of the advance, Operation Epsom...

five beach landing sectors of the amphibious assault component of Operation Overlord during the Second World War. On June 6, 1944, the Allies invaded German-occupied...

monuments to the battle and Operation Overlord. For example, on the road to Odon-bridge at Tourmauville, there is a memorial for the 15th (Scottish) Infantry...

at the cemetery, relating the global significance and meaning of Operation Overlord. On June 6, 1944, the 607th Quartermaster Graves Registration Company...

Longues-sur-Mer. "LONGUES-SUR-MER BATTERY – WN 48 – ATLANTIC WALL". dday-overlord.com. "Wiederstandnest n° 48". The Atlantic Wall Linear Museum. Zaloga,...

Infantry Division, which landed on Sword on 6 June 1944. Operation Overlord plans called for British Second Army to secure the city and form a line from...

Allied troops in the First Canadian Army during the later stages of Operation Overlord, from 8 to 9 August 1944. The intention was to break through the German...

the remnants of Army Group B retreated across the Seine, completing Operation Overlord. Early Allied objectives in the wake of the D-Day invasion of German-occupied...

Normandy on the evening of 6 June 1944 as part of Operation Neptune, the assault phase of Operation Overlord. Elmira consisted of 176 Douglas C-47 Skytrain...

forces. One of the primary concerns when the Allies were planning Operation Overlord was the acquisition of deep-water ports. This was because the vital...

and vehicles and millions of tons of supplies necessary to sustain Operation Overlord. The harbours were made up of all the elements one would expect of...

the Normandy campaign. Having been delayed several times by poor weather, Operation Cobra commenced on 25 July 1944, with a concentrated aerial bombardment...

due to both logistical difficulties and poor weather, the D-Day of Overlord, the largest amphibious operation ever, was postponed 24 hours to 6 June 1944...

Flavin Sweeney (1923–2023), postmistress involved in weather forecasting for Operation Overlord The Valley of Knockanure "Cnoc an Iúir/Knockanure". logainm...