he wants to see what captain stagg is made of. he has to know if it's predictive powers can be trusted when the time of testing comes. there is a question for us. are your children becoming the kind of people who could be ready when testing arrives? even winston churchill questioned the wisdom of the attack, telling eisenhower on one occasion "when i think of normandy choked with soldiers, i have my doubts." if eisenhower had doubts, he has resolved them. the commander holds one last meeting with advisors. no new weather reports will be available for hours. the ships are sailing in the channel. if they are to be called back, it has to be now. i can see only man can do it. -- ike is the only man who can do it. he turns to advisors. then, he offers his own. ok he says. let's go. the allied invasion of normandy shatters hitler's atlantic wall. now, america's arsenal of democracy can begin the work of liberating a continent from the barbarism of nazi germany. a farmboy from abilene, kansas. and, his weatherman made all the difference.