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Hace 3 días · Join Gettysburg Foundation President Emeritus & Historian Wayne E. Motts and Eisenhower National Historic Site Park Guide Alyce Evans as they discuss why Jun...
Hace 23 horas · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th U.S. president (1953–61), who had been supreme commander of the Allied forces in western Europe during World War II. A republican, as president, he presided over a period that was characterized by economic prosperity and conformity in the midst of the Cold War.
Hace 2 días · This episode, Lawfare Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson sat down with author, attorney, legal scholar, and Lawfare Contributing Editor Michel Paradis to discuss the 80th anniversary of D-Day and his new book, “The Light of Battle: Eisenhower, D-Day, and the Birth of the American Superpower. They discussed understudied aspects of Eisenhower’s unique personal and professional history, how they ...
Hace 1 día · What you see on the headline attached to this blog post might be the most understated and underrated military command in the history of warfare. It came from the lips of Dwight D. Eisenhower, supreme Allied Commander of the forces that launched the greatest sea invasion in history. It's been called D-Day. And for those who have wondered what the "D" stood for ... it stands for nothing at all ...
Hace 3 días · In 1961, while going to his inauguration, President John F. Kennedy asked Eisenhower what had given him the edge on D-Day. He replied: “Because we had better meteorologists than the Germans.”
Hace 1 día · It was launched on June 6, 1944 (D-Day), with the simultaneous landing of U.S., British, and Canadian forces on five separate beachheads in Normandy, France. The success of the landings would play a key role in the defeat of the Nazi’s Third Reich.
Hace 4 días · Shortly after the D-Day invasion started 80 years ago this week, Supreme Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower — walking the Normandy beaches with his son 2nd Lt. John Eisenhower — said this: “If I ...
