MOVIE

Storm Front in Mayo

Name: Storm Front in Mayo
Director: Gerry Gregg
Genre: Documentary, History, TV Movie
Released: 2019-05-28
Cast: Eva Sweeney, Colin Wright, Mike Johnson, John Downes, Antony Beevor

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.

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 Fl… + more

Release Date

2019-05-28

Year

2019

Duration

53m

Status

Released

Score

7.50

Genres

Documentary History TV Movie

Production

#weather-forecast#world-war-ii#interview#d-day#ireland#testify#1940s#weather-report#invasion-by-sea#war-documentary#testimony#historical-documentary#operation-overlord

Cast

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Eva Sweeney

Young Maureen Flavin Sweeney

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Colin Wright

General Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Mike Johnson

Captain James Stagg

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John Downes

Met Éireann Telephone Operator

Antony Beevor

Self - Historian

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Robert Gerwarth

Self - Historian

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Susan Eisenhower

Self - Eisenhower's Granddaughter

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Joseph Skelly

Self - Historian

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Richard G. Trefry

Self - Retired US Army Lt. General

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Maureen Flavin Sweeney

Self - Weather Observer (1944)