Storm Front in Mayo: The Story of the D-Day Forecast

Directed by Gerry Gregg
2019    52mDocumentary, History,
7.3
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The incredible story of Ireland's unknown but critical role in WWII and how in the summer of 1944 the timing of the D Day landings came to hinge on readings taken by a 21 year old girl in a tiny remote weather station on Europe's most westerly headland.

Cast of Storm Front in Mayo: The Story of the D-Day Forecast

  • Eva SweeneyYoung Maureen Flavin Sweeney
  • Colin WrightGeneral Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • Mike JohnsonCaptain James Stagg
  • John DownesMet Éireann Telephone Operator
  • Antony BeevorSelf - Historian
  • Robert GerwarthSelf - Historian
  • Susan EisenhowerSelf - Eisenhower's Granddaughter
  • Joseph SkellySelf - Historian
  • Richard G. TrefrySelf - Retired US Army Lt. General
  • Maureen Flavin SweeneySelf - Weather Observer (1944)
  • Gerald FlemingSelf - Meteorologist
  • David McCullaghSelf - Journalist
  • Catherine RossSelf - British Met Office Archivist
  • Jeremy GreenSelf - British Military Police Colonel
  • Rodney TeckSelf - Climate Researcher
  • John C. SweeneySelf - Climate Researcher
  • Vincent SweeneySelf - Lighthouse Keeper
  • Richard CallaghanSelf - Royal MP Museum Curator
  • Joe CattiniSelf - D-Day Veteran
  • Adolf HitlerSelf - Politician (archive footage)
  • Bernard MontgomerySelf - British Military (archive footage)
  • Dwight D. EisenhowerSelf - US Military (archive footage)
  • Éamon de ValeraSelf - Politician (archive footage)
  • Erwin RommelSelf - German Military (archive footage)
  • Franklin D. RooseveltSelf - Politician (archive footage)
  • James StaggSelf - Meteorologist (archive footage)
  • Joseph GoebbelsSelf - Politician (archive footage)
  • Joseph StalinSelf - Politician (archive footage)
  • Winston ChurchillSelf - Politician (archive footage)

 

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