Template:Did you know nominations/Maureen Flavin Sweeney

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The result was: promoted by Vaticidalprophet (talk) 04:31, 9 September 2023 (UTC)

Maureen Flavin Sweeney

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• ... that after Irish post office clerk Maureen Flavin Sweeney reported worsening weather conditions Dwight D. Eisenhower agreed to postpone D-Day by 24 hours? Source: A number of sources used but eg: "One of Maureen’s duties in the post office was to record this and other metrological information and ring it in to the met office in Dublin. What Maureen didn’t know was that this information, from the most westerly station in Europe, was being sent to the Headquarters of the Allied Expeditionary Force, in England, and would land on the desk of United States Four Star General Dwight D. Eisenhower who was then Supreme Commander of the combined allied forces. Her readings confirmed for the meteorologists in General Eisenhower’s office that it was wise to postpone Operation Overlord or what later became known as D-Day for 24 hours, and that the allies should stand down all associated activities until the weather cleared, and this break in the weather which Maureen and the Sweeney family also reported allowed the invasion to go ahead on June 6th." from: McMahon, Páraic (18 June 2021). "East Clare ties to celebration of historic Maureen Flavin Sweeney". Clare Echo. Retrieved 8 September 2023.
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/William Charles Wallace Nixon
  • Comment: Interestingly (for me at least!), I make this my 1000th proper article not counting disambuations and the like

Moved to mainspace by Dumelow (talk). Self-nominated at 16:04, 8 September 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Maureen Flavin Sweeney; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

• New article that was created on 8 September 2023‎ is 4,729 characters and nominated on the same day. No copyvios detected (AGF sources which can't go through Dup detector). Article is well-sourced. Hook is 154 characters long (under 200 character max.) and is interesting. Ref 6 (verifying the hook) is a reliable source. QPQ done. Looks good to go! —Bloom6132 (talk) 21:01, 8 September 2023 (UTC)