Located on the West coast of Ireland.
The lighthouse keeper gave the weather forecast that enabled General Eisenhower to make the decision to land Allied forces in Normandy, France on D-Day, June 6, 1944.
Some meteorologists had predicted a week of bad weather for France at the beginning of June. The Germans believed this forecast and Field Marshal Rommel left the front lines in France to visit his family in Germany.
The observer at Blacksod Bay predicted a mid-week break and Eisenhower acted on that prediction. This was a big reason for Allied success that day.
--GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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