Dwight David Eisenhower was born on Oct. 14, 1890 in Denison, Texas 135-years ago. His family later relocated to Kansas. His ...

General Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander, broadcast a sober warning and clear instructions to the people of Occupied Europe. Said General Eisenhower, his voice resonant and reassuring: “The hour ...

The apparent choices and the decision -- Zuckerman's theory : the strategic attack on transport for tactical purposes -- EOU and its doctrine -- The winning of daylight air supremacy over Germany -- ...

“You are about to embark on the great Crusade toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you.” So began General Dwight Eisenhower’s June 6, 1944, D-Day message to ...

Eisenhower speaks with men of the 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment, part of the 101st Airborne Division, on June 5, 1944, the day before the D-Day invasion. Omar Bradley (1893-1981) Bradley, who had ...

OMAHA BEACH, Normandy - On June 6, 1944, the largest air, land and sea invasion in military history took place on the Normandy coast of France. The Battle of Normandy, often referred to as D-Day and ...

June 6, 1944. The seminal event of the “Good War,” fought by the “Greatest Generation.” The beginning of what General Dwight Eisenhower called the “Great Crusade” to defeat the Nazi Reich, free the ...

On this day in history, the D-Day operation of June 6, 1944, brought together the land, air and sea forces of the Allied armies in what became known as the largest amphibious invasion in military ...

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 ...

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 ...