Eisenhower
EisenhowerDwight D. Eisenhower
What do you think of when you hear the name, Dwight D. Eisenhower? For most they think of him as just a president and nothing else, but he was also one of or maybe the greatest general of all time.
In 1909, Dwight D. Eisenhower graduated from Abilene High School, Abilene, Kansas. After he got out of high school, he got a invitation to enter West Point Military Academy. He did not want to be in the Army, but he learned that by attending West Point he could get a college education. In 1915 he graduated from West Point, and he was 61st in a class of 164, and he was 95th in deportment. Prior to graduated he was commissioned second lieutenant of infantry and he was assigned to the 19th Infantry, at Fort Sam Houston, near San Antonio, Texas. Shortly after his arrival, he met Mamie Geneva Doud, and later on July 1st of 1916, they got married.
In 1917, when the United States entered World War I, he was promoted to captain, and he was assigned to training duty at Fort Oglethorpe and also Fort Leavenworth as an instructor in officer courses. In 1918 he commanded 6,000 men at Tank Training Center at Camp Colt, near Getttysburg, Pennsylvania and was promoted to temporary major and then lieutenant colonel when he commanded the Tank Brigade at Camp Meade. Even though he never went overseas, he was given the Distinguished Service Medal for his work.
After the war he was reverted to rank of captain and soon after, he advanced to major and commanded the 301st Tank Battalion. In 1922 he was again reverted to rank of captain and was again promoted to major as the executive officer at Camp Gaillard, in the Panama Canal Zone till 1924. After he returned to the United States, he attended the Command and General Staff School, at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He graduated 1st in class out of 275 in 1926. In 1928 he graduated from the Army War College and went on to serve in the Office of the Chief of Staff as aide to General Douglas MacArthur.
In 1933 Eisenhower was sent to the Philippine government as a military advisor under MacArthur. He was promoted to lieutenant colonel in 1936 and served as the executive officer of the 15th Infantry at Fort Ord and later as the chief of staff of the 3rd Division prior to World War II.
World war II began in Europe in 1939. The Congress of the United States responded by ordering a military draft that began in 1940. On December 7, 1941, Japan attacked pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and the next day the United States entered World...
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