Eisenhower’s Impossible Choice — How One 'Uncertain' Weather Report Saved 150,000 Lives on D-Day

June 4th, 1944. Supreme Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower faced the most agonizing decision in military history. A massive storm was battering the English Channel. 150,000 Allied soldiers waited to launch the largest amphibious invasion ever attempted. And his chief meteorologist just told him something that seemed impossible: the storm would break for exactly 36 hours, creating a narrow window to invade Nazi-occupied France.
Go now on uncertain weather and risk drowning his army. Wait two weeks and risk German discovery. Or cancel Operation Overlord and possibly lose the war.

This is the untold story of how Eisenhower bet everything on a weather forecast that could have been catastrophically wrong. We reveal what he said in those final hours, the crushing weight of command responsibility, and how trusting one "uncertain" report changed the course of World War II.

Featuring direct quotes from Eisenhower, Group Captain James Stagg (the meteorologist), German Field Marshal Rommel, and the commanders who witnessed the most important three words of WWII: "Okay, we'll go."

Discover why military historians call this the greatest leadership decision of the 20th century, and why German commanders were stunned that the Allies invaded in conditions their meteorologists said were impossible.

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