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Storm Front in Mayo
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Storm Front in Mayo

2019-05-28 · 53 min · ★ 7.5

Documentary · History · TV 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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Directors
Gerry Gregg
Production companies
New Decade TV and Film, ARTE GEIE, RTÉ
Countries
France, Germany, Ireland
Status
Released

Top Cast

Eva SweeneyYoung Maureen Flavin Sweeney
Colin WrightGeneral Dwight D. Eisenhower
Mike JohnsonCaptain James Stagg
John DownesMet Éireann Telephone Operator
Antony BeevorAntony BeevorSelf - Historian
Robert GerwarthSelf - Historian
Susan EisenhowerSelf - Eisenhower's Granddaughter
Joseph SkellySelf - Historian
Richard G. TrefrySelf - Retired US Army Lt. General
Maureen Flavin SweeneySelf - Weather Observer (1944)
Gerald FlemingSelf - Meteorologist
David McCullaghSelf - Journalist
Catherine RossSelf - British Met Office Archivist
Jeremy GreenSelf - British Military Police Colonel
Rodney TeckSelf - Climate Researcher
John C. SweeneySelf - Climate Researcher
Vincent SweeneySelf - Lighthouse Keeper
Richard CallaghanSelf - Royal MP Museum Curator
Joe CattiniSelf - D-Day Veteran
Adolf HitlerAdolf HitlerSelf - Politician (archive footage)

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