Cover of Volume 3, No. 3 of the Army Air Forces Weather Service Bulletin.
Colonel D. N. Yates receiving the Legion of Merit from Lt. General Carl Spaatz
for "his part in deciding the choice of D-Day in Europe... he picked the only
day in June on which the great operation could have been launched." Colonel
Yates became head of the AAF Weather Wing and the AF Air Weather Service.
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