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A few days after my return from Italy, Sir Nelson called a meeting to discuss British arrangements for the Overlord operation. The deputy director, the assistant director in charge of forecasting, Mr. Douglas, and myself were present. Sir Nelson opened by saying, “Now that the inter-allied arrangements for Overlord have been agreed upon, it is for us to determine the domestic provisions that must be made to enable the Meteorological Office to play its full part in the operation.” The words “inter-allied” and “domestic” were “spoken in italics.” I took it that this reminder was addressed more to me than to the other participants. The boundary of the area of permissible discussion was abundantly clear.
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Petterssen, S., Fleming, J.R. (2001). Overlord: Planning for Chaos. In: Fleming, J.R. (eds) Weathering the Storm: Sverre Petterssen, the D-Day Forecast, and the Rise of Modern Meteorology. American Meteorological Society, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-935704-05-8_17
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