Storm Front in Mayo

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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  Antony Beevor

  Self - Historian
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  Adolf Hitler

  Self - Politician (archive footage)
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  Bernard Montgomery

  Self - British Military (archive footage)
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  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Self - US Military (archive footage)
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  Erwin Rommel

  Self - German Military (archive footage)
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  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Self - Politician (archive footage)
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  Joseph Goebbels

  Self - Politician (archive footage)
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  Joseph Stalin

  Self - Politician (archive footage)
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  Winston Churchill

  Self - Politician (archive footage)