A Soldier's Story: General Dwight David Eisenhower - WWI, WWII, Korea
A Soldier's Story: General Dwight David Eisenhower, WWI, WWII, Korea
General Dwight David Eisenhower
Born October 4, 1890 - Died March 28, 1969
General Dwight David Eisenhower was born in Abilene, Kansas, on October 4, 1890. He graduated from Abilene High School in 1909. After high school, he worked at a creamery for more than a year to help pay his brother's college tuition before receiving an appointment to West Point in 1911.
He graduated from West Point in 1915.
During World War I, he commanded a tank training center at Camp Colt and, in 1922, was in the Panama Canal Zone with General Fox Conner.
He graduated from the Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth in 1926 and then reported for duty and toured for the War Department until 1929. In 1933, he became General Douglas MacArthur's aide.
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At the beginning of World War II, General Dwight D. Eisenhower became the Chief of Staff of the Third Army and, later, in 1942, the Commander in Chief of the Allied Forces, commanding Operation Torch and D-Day. He was also the governor of the US-occupied zone.
After he retired from active service, General Dwight D. Eisenhower campaigned and won the office of President of the United States, where he is credited with the armistice of Korea, ending the Korean War, the successful handling of the crises in Lebanon and Suez, the development of the Atoms for Peace program, and the creation of the US Information Agency. Alaska and Hawaii were established as states during General Dwight D. Eisenhower's presidency, and he supported the creation of the Interstate Highway System. In addition, President General Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the 1957 Civil Rights Act and established the Civil Rights Commission.
General Dwight David Eisenhower died on March 28, 1969. He rests at the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum in Abilene, Kansas.
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