Everything to Know About James Stagg, the ‘Pressure’ Meteorologist Who Helped Approve D-Day
The film shows how Stagg’s forecast helped Eisenhower choose a 24-hour delay that opened a narrow invasion window, historians said.
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In the major filmography that chronicles the Second World War, Pressure is not among the outstanding works. And this, even if it tells of a decisive event in the victory against the Nazis.
In 'Pressure,' the story of the meteorologist who helped save D-Day
D-Day was supposed to happen on June 5, 1944. The story of why it ultimately took place on June 6 is one that has been a bit lost to history, consumed by the larger events surrounding it. One day might not seem like much in the grand scheme, but it was a seismic delay in plans for the unprecedented and daring invasion, which would deploy nearly 160,000 Allied troops in Normandy. Ultimately it came down to a recommendation from a shrewd Scottish …
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