On his inauguration day in 1961, John F. Kennedy asked departing president Dwight D. Eisenhower what gave the Allies their crucial edge over the Nazis on D-Day. His answer? “We had better meteorologists than the Germans.”
This famous exchange is cited during the closing credits of Anthony Maras’ new war film, Pressure, which tells the little-known true story of how chief meteorologist Captain James Stagg advised Eisenhower on the weather forecast that determined the date of D-Day – the largest and most dangerous seaborne invasion in history that changed the course of the war.
The story opens in June 1944 during the tense 72 hours before the…
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