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 ...
“I didn’t get frightened until three weeks after it had begun, when I began to read the American papers and found … how near we were to being whipped,” President Dwight D. Eisenhower confessed at a ...
Dwight David Eisenhower was born on Oct. 14, 1890 in Denison, Texas 135-years ago. His family later relocated to Kansas. His ...
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When Two Greatest Allied Generals Collided in WWII
In this episode we stand on the banks of the Rhine at Oppenheim, where in March 1945 General George Patton and his Third Army ...
In three words President Eisenhower stretched the point about his Administration that had made it one of the cleanest in U.S. political history. He permitted an exception to his principle that any ...
The Christmas season includes the anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge, the largest land battle fought by the United States. The battle is remembered as “hell on Earth.” On Dec. 16, 1944, Nazi ...
From ancient times, military professionals have rightly regarded amphibious invasions as especially challenging. We recognize and honor the 80th anniversary of the greatest such operation, the Allies’ ...
Patton and Lt. Col. Lyle Bernard near Brolo, Sicily's north coast. (National Archives) “I didn’t get frightened until three weeks after it had begun, when I began to read the American papers and found ...
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