Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower (Born: October 14, 1890)
Nickname: Ike
General of United States and leads and attack on Normandy, France.
34th President of the United States (Republican)
Supreme Allied Commander during World War II
30 years in the United States Army
United States Military Academy Graduate in 1915
Friends with George S. Patton
Helped Douglas MacArthur in the Philippines.
General George C. Marshall gave Eisenhower the command at the start of WWII
In command of Operation TORCH in North Africa to draw some attention away from a Europe invasion.
The TORCH Operation was on Oran and Algiers, Algeria.
Eisenhower made Italy surrender after invading Sicily and Italy, in 1943.
Eisenhower was in charge of Operation OVERLORD that was in planning since the attack on Pearl Harbor which was an attack on Normandy, France on June 6th,1944; D-Day. 2,000 men involved in attack.
The OVERLORD Operation attacked Gold, Sword, Juno, Omaha, and Utah beaches in Normandy, France.
Operation DRAGON put Allied soldiers in southern France.
2 million Allied soldiers were in France by August 1944.
German General Alfred Jodl surrendered to General Dwight D. Eisenhower on May 7, 1945.
Created the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in 1958.
Alaska and Hawaii became states in 1958 while Eisenhower was President.
Eisenhower on D-Day
