Re: Remotest military outposts in WW2

Dave Gower wrote:
"Domestos" <never.you@xxxxxxxx> wrote

Why would the Germans be manning a weather station on Greenland?...

As Michael said, weather normally moves west to east, so this is where you
look to predict. During the war, weather predictions were top secret and
highly valuable, since they really helped to plan military operations.

One of the arguments made to show that Ireland was deep-down
truly "pro-Allies" was the fact that they made weather observations
available to the British, which as is indicated above was very
important to them since they are upstream of Britain.
The famous weather forecast that gave Eisenhower the information
that there would be a break in the storm that was striking the
English Channel before June 6, 1944 (D-Day) would have been
very dependent on weather observations made in Ireland.

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