Prior to World War II, Dwight Eisenhower had resigned himself to finishing out a distinguished but unremarkable military career. By 1943, however, he found himself serving as Supreme Commander, Allied ...

A passage near the end of Michael Lee Lanning’s biography sums up the extraordinarily different personalities and places that made the successful leadership of Dwight Eisenhower possible: “The boy ...

On the eve of the D-Day invasion, Gen. Dwight Eisenhower spent the remaining hours of daylight with the paratroopers who were about to jump behind German lines into occupied France. A single moment ...

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Today, we celebrate the 135th birthday of an American legend, a visionary leader, and an enduring icon of duty, service, and discipline: President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Born in 1890 to humble ...

In addition to overseeing plans for the D-Day invasion, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower also spent months writing a message to encourage troops at the outset of the invasion. Eisenhower's Order of the Day, ...