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EISENHOWER AT WAR David Eisenhower
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Armistice Day, November 11, 1918
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Field Marshall Erwin Rommel supervising the laying obstacles along the French coast.
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Field Marshal Karl Rudolf Gerd Von Rundstedt
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Mid-May 1944, Eisenhower and General Bernard Montgomery meet with troops.
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June 5, 1944, Eisenhower meets with troops from the U. S
June 5, 1944, Eisenhower meets with troops from the U.S. 101st Airborne.
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Normandy Beach
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Units of the 2nd Infantry Division coming ashore on Omaha Beach
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Aerial view of typical hedgerow terrain in Normandy
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Infantry crouching behind the bushes atop hedgerow.
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Hedgerow battlefield in XIX Corps sector
Hedgerow battlefield in XIX Corps sector. Engineers search the road for land mines.
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Caen Cathedral, picture taken shortly after Dempsey’s seizure of the city on July 9.
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Caen
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Eisenhower, Bradley, and Quesada confer in the aftermath of the carpet bombing of St. –Lo.
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Advance toward Falaise
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Eisenhower and Bradley at the Arc de Triomphe, August 27, 1944
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General Dwight Eisenhower, Winston Churchill, Marshall Sir Alan Brooke
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The German Commanders: (L to R) Field Marshal Walther Model, General Josef “Sepp” Dietrich, and General Hasso Von Manteuffel.
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December 16, 1944 German assault, Ardennes Forest
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Collins, Montgomery, Ridgeway
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St. –Vith: “The rock of defense on which the tide of the [Sixth Panzer Army] assault broke and divided…”
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March 15, 1945, US soldier looks down on the Ludendorff Bridge, near Remagen, from the east bank of the Rhine.
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American High Command, winter-spring 1945
American High Command, winter-spring 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.
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Brooke, Eisenhower, Montgomery, Bradley, and Churchill (not pictured) meet at Major General John B. Anderson’s XIII Corps headquarters near Rheinberg.
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Ohrdruf Nord, April, 12 1945. Eisenhower, Patton, and Bradley inspect a work camp near Gotha.
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Buchenwald
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May 7, 1945. Unconditional surrender
May 7, Unconditional surrender. General Alfred Jodl signs the instrument of surrender at SHAEF forward, Reims.
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GERMANY - May 1945: Crowd of displaced people & refugees looting the ruins of a food warehouse re postwar food shortages throughout Europe.
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Eisenhower, Zhukov, and Montgomery in Berlin, June 5, 1945.
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Eisenhower gives his Guildhall address in London.
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Eisenhower, Zhukov, Stalin, Averell Harriman, at Lenin’s tomb, watch a parade through Red Square on August 12, 1945
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