Wednesday, October 3, 2007

D Day - the moon and the tides

The moon and tides figured in the timing of D Day, otherwise known as operation Overlord.

From "No Ordinary Time", about Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt, and World War II:

[General Dwight D.] Eisenhower determined that only four days in June provided the combination of conditions necessary for the assault -- a late-rising moon for the paratroopers, and, shortly after dawn, a low tide. The invasion was set for Monday, June 5, a month later than originally planned.


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