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From: "Robert Sveinson"
Date: Sunday, March 30, 2008 11:59 PM
Subject: Re: Question on D-Day and Weather
From: "Robert Sveinson"
Date: Sunday, March 30, 2008 11:59 PM
Subject: Re: Question on D-Day and Weather
"SilentOtto"
news:573315a1-5d85-419d-8ad6-5d49135efdff@n58g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...
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> Does anyone know the dates of the next invasion window and what the
> weather was like on those dates?
According to Carlo D'Este another chance would
not be present for "at least another two weeks".
Decision In Normandy
There was gale force weather on (for one day) June 20,
14 days after D-Day. As a result men and stores could not
be landed, and certainly the initial
invasion would not have been made.
