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Maureen Sweeney, weather watcher who influenced D-Day plans, dies at 100

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Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave Before dawn on June 3, 1944, a postal clerk in Ireland’s County Mayo checked her weather gauges. A storm was coming fast. The barometer readings were dropping. The wind, pouring off a low-pressure zone in the mid-Atlantic, was slicing through the drizzle in the village of Blacksod. … Read more

‘It was powerful’: WWII veterans return to Utah Seaside to commemorate D-Day

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ON UTAH BEACH, France — Trying on the vastness of Utah Seaside, its sand blowing in sturdy wind and shiny sunshine, made Robert Gibson’s reminiscence of D-Day much more vivid. “It was powerful,” the 99-year-old veteran mentioned of the second when he landed there on June 6, 1944 alongside greater than 150,000 different Allied troops. … Read more