EISENHOWER AT WAR David Eisenhower

Armistice Day, November 11, 1918

Field Marshall Erwin Rommel supervising the laying obstacles along the French coast.

Field Marshal Karl Rudolf Gerd Von Rundstedt

Mid-May 1944, Eisenhower and General Bernard Montgomery meet with troops.

June 5, 1944, Eisenhower meets with troops from the U. S June 5, 1944, Eisenhower meets with troops from the U.S. 101st Airborne.

Normandy Beach

Units of the 2nd Infantry Division coming ashore on Omaha Beach

Aerial view of typical hedgerow terrain in Normandy

Infantry crouching behind the bushes atop hedgerow.

Hedgerow battlefield in XIX Corps sector Hedgerow battlefield in XIX Corps sector. Engineers search the road for land mines.

Caen Cathedral, picture taken shortly after Dempsey’s seizure of the city on July 9.

Caen

Eisenhower, Bradley, and Quesada confer in the aftermath of the carpet bombing of St. –Lo.

Advance toward Falaise

Eisenhower and Bradley at the Arc de Triomphe, August 27, 1944

General Dwight Eisenhower, Winston Churchill, Marshall Sir Alan Brooke

The German Commanders: (L to R) Field Marshal Walther Model, General Josef “Sepp” Dietrich, and General Hasso Von Manteuffel.

December 16, 1944 German assault, Ardennes Forest

Collins, Montgomery, Ridgeway

St. –Vith: “The rock of defense on which the tide of the [Sixth Panzer Army] assault broke and divided…”

March 15, 1945, US soldier looks down on the Ludendorff Bridge, near Remagen, from the east bank of the Rhine.

American High Command, winter-spring 1945 American High Command, winter-spring 1945. Back row (Left to Right): Brigadier General Ralph F. Stearley, Lieutenant General Hoyt S. Vandenberg, Lieutenant General W. Bedell Smith, Major General Otto P. Weyland, Brigadier General Richard E. Nugent. Front Row (Left to Right): Lieutenant General William M. Simpson, General George S. Patton, General Carl A. Spaatz, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, General Omar N. Bradley, General Courtney H. Hodges, Lieutenant General Leonard T. Gerow.

Brooke, Eisenhower, Montgomery, Bradley, and Churchill (not pictured) meet at Major General John B. Anderson’s XIII Corps headquarters near Rheinberg.

Ohrdruf Nord, April, 12 1945. Eisenhower, Patton, and Bradley inspect a work camp near Gotha.

Buchenwald

May 7, 1945. Unconditional surrender May 7, 1945. Unconditional surrender. General Alfred Jodl signs the instrument of surrender at SHAEF forward, Reims.

GERMANY - May 1945: Crowd of displaced people & refugees looting the ruins of a food warehouse re postwar food shortages throughout Europe.

Eisenhower, Zhukov, and Montgomery in Berlin, June 5, 1945.

Eisenhower gives his Guildhall address in London.

Eisenhower, Zhukov, Stalin, Averell Harriman, at Lenin’s tomb, watch a parade through Red Square on August 12, 1945