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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 Spaatzfor his part in deciding the choice of D-Day in Europe... he picked the onlyday in June on which the great operation could have been launched. ColonelYates became head of the AAF Weather Wing and the AF Air Weather Service.