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In December 1943, Dwight D. "Ike" Eisenhower meets with Prime Minister Winston Churchill to discuss the forthcoming land invasion of western Europe. Eisenhower threatens to resign his newly appointed command as Supreme Commander of SHAEF unless he is given control of all airborne operations, citing the need to dictate where and how strategic bombing operations are carried out.
Kathleen Helen Summersby BEM (née MacCarthy-Morrogh; 23 November 1908 – 20 January 1975), known as Kay Summersby, was a member of the British Mechanised Transport Corps during World War II, who served as a chauffeur and later as personal secretary to Dwight D. Eisenhower during his period as Supreme Commander Allied Expeditionary Force in command of the Allied forces in north west Europe.
Ike, also known as Ike: The War Years, is a 1979 television miniseries about the life of Dwight D. Eisenhower, mostly focusing on his time as Supreme Commander in Europe during World War II. The screenplay , written by Melville Shavelson , was based on Kay Summersby 's 1948 memoir Eisenhower Was My Boss and her 1975 autobiography, Past ...
General Dwight D. Eisenhower. On this day 68 years ago, nearly 3 million Allied troops readied themselves for one of the greatest military operations of world history. D-Day. And the push that ...
Historian Evan Thomas details Eisenhower's decision to push back on the military-industrial complex during the Cold War. Dwight D. Eisenhower: Facing down the Soviets [Video] Skip to main content
"Ike for President", sometimes referred to as "We'll Take Ike" or "I Like Ike", was a political television advertisement for Dwight D. Eisenhower's presidential campaign in 1952. The minute-long animated advertisement was conceived by Jacqueline Cochran , a pilot and Eisenhower campaign aide, and Roy O. Disney of The Walt Disney Company , and ...
Historians long ago abandoned the view that Eisenhower's was a failed presidency. He did, after all, end the Korean War without getting into any others. He stabilized, and did not escalate, the Soviet–American rivalry. He strengthened European alliances while withdrawing support from European colonialism.
The same month, Brendan Fraser was cast as Dwight D. Eisenhower. [5] The following month, Kerry Condon joined the cast as Eisenhower's assistant Captain Kay Summersby. [6] They were later joined in the cast by Damien Lewis and Chris Messina. Principal photography began in the UK in September 2024. [7] [8]