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Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 108

A 'D-Day' Weather Chart and Memento of General Eisenhower

Auction 30.11.1999
30.11.1999
Schätzpreis
250 £ - 300 £
ca. 405 $ - 486 $
Zuschlagspreis:
437 £
ca. 709 $
Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 108

A 'D-Day' Weather Chart and Memento of General Eisenhower

Auction 30.11.1999
30.11.1999
Schätzpreis
250 £ - 300 £
ca. 405 $ - 486 $
Zuschlagspreis:
437 £
ca. 709 $
Beschreibung:

A 'D-Day' Weather Chart and Memento of General Eisenhower A colour photocopy, 26in. x 33in. of a map showing Europe, Iceland, Greenland, The Eastern Atlantic and part of North Africa, headed AIR MINISTRY, METEOROLOGICAL OFFICE and dated in manuscript TUESDAY JUNE 6TH 1944 - 1300 GMT, copiously annotated with Meteorological symbols in black and red ink; together with a photocopy of a typewritten memorandum originally classified SECRET headed SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, G-3 (OPS) DIVISION, 21 JUNE 1944 and signed J M STAGG/CHIEF METEOROLOGICAL OFFICER. This memo summarises the weather which prevailed from the 17th to the 21st June 1944, (the next possible time for the D-Day landings had they been postponed from 6th June), and concludes that landings during this period would have been virtually impossible. The letter is annotated in manuscript by General Eisenhower: Stagg/Thanks - I thank the Gods of War we went when did! DE. See illustration overleaf (2)

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 108
Auktion:
Datum:
30.11.1999
Auktionshaus:
Christie's
Spink London
Beschreibung:

A 'D-Day' Weather Chart and Memento of General Eisenhower A colour photocopy, 26in. x 33in. of a map showing Europe, Iceland, Greenland, The Eastern Atlantic and part of North Africa, headed AIR MINISTRY, METEOROLOGICAL OFFICE and dated in manuscript TUESDAY JUNE 6TH 1944 - 1300 GMT, copiously annotated with Meteorological symbols in black and red ink; together with a photocopy of a typewritten memorandum originally classified SECRET headed SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, G-3 (OPS) DIVISION, 21 JUNE 1944 and signed J M STAGG/CHIEF METEOROLOGICAL OFFICER. This memo summarises the weather which prevailed from the 17th to the 21st June 1944, (the next possible time for the D-Day landings had they been postponed from 6th June), and concludes that landings during this period would have been virtually impossible. The letter is annotated in manuscript by General Eisenhower: Stagg/Thanks - I thank the Gods of War we went when did! DE. See illustration overleaf (2)

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 108
Auktion:
Datum:
30.11.1999
Auktionshaus:
Christie's
Spink London
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