Posted on 06/07/2026 1:32:55 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
John Eisenhower, retired U.S. Army Brigadier General and son of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, talked about his father's role as Supreme Allied Commander Europe. He also spoke about President Eisenhower's relationships with American and British generals and how Eisenhower compromised with Allied nations to bring World War II in Europe to an end.
Dwight Eisenhower's Son Talks About D-Day | 53:50
C-SPAN's American History TV | 56.1K subscribers | 3,691 views | June 6, 2026
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The Allied invasion of Nazi-controlled France on June 6, 1944 was the largest military invasion in history, involving nearly 160,000 service members arriving by ship and air at Normandy. Its success turned the tide of World War II. Two decades after D-Day, former Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, who was Supreme Commander in charge of the operation, returned to Normandy. Eisenhower talked with CBS News' Walter Cronkite about his experiences in June 1944, the tactical decisions behind Operation Overlord, and how British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was talked out of joining the invading forces. Eisenhower and Cronkite visited the Allies' war room on England's southern coast; the coast of France, including Pointe du Hoc and Omaha Beach; and the American military cemetery at St. Laurent-on-the-Sea. This special broadcast of "CBS Reports," featuring newsreel footage of the invasion, originally aired in 19 countries around the world on June 5, 1964.CBS Reports (1964): "D-Day Plus 20 Years - Eisenhower Returns to Normandy" | 1:22:15
CBS News | 7.03M subscribers | 2,888,642 views | June 5, 2019
Nuff said.
Patton’s rescue of the 101st at Bastogne.
Joe Toye would disagree....
“How do I feel about being rescued by Patton? Well I’d feel pretty peachy, except for one thing. We didn’t need to be ___in’ rescued by Patton! Got that?”
Ike’s son died in 2013. His grandson David is 78 and married to Julie Nixon.
No DNA test required here, looks a lot like the old man, one of our best.
Greatest American of the 20th Century.
Which says nothing about how Eisenhower mollified Montgomery v. the more competent Patton.
The Germans couldn’t believe Patton being reigned in. They considered him our best war general and he was being boxed out. I understand there are politics no matter what but without the Americans, England would be speaking German. Now its Arabic without a fired shot.
“Which says nothing about how Eisenhower mollified Montgomery v. the more competent Patton.”
Patton never had the chance to battle Rommel. Montgomery did, and he defeated Rommel at 2nd El Alamein. This was before our first troops landed in North Africa.
Rommel considered Montgomery to be a very capable general. Not a tactical genius but a methodical one who used logistics to his advantage.
Patton was a brilliant tactical commander but he ignored logistics. His advance famously stalled not because he was being denied supplies but because he outran the Army’s ability to move gasoline and ammunition forward. At one point he was hijacking supplies headed for other commands.
One of my family friends is an elderly man who was at Normandy as a teenaged sailor on a Royal Canadian Navy destroyer. Juno beach was relatively quiet so they went to Omaha and pulled Americans alive and dead out of the sea.
It had a chuckle when John was talking about Monty, he praised his skill as a general “particularly for set-piece battles”. Market Garden was way out of his comfort zone, and gives the lie to M’s claim that if everyone had listened to him, blah blah blah. We did, and it was a failure.
Right. The date is when the vid got uploaded. I was looking for the death date by checking the keyword here, and found a bunch of topics about how John endorsed and then voted for Kerry.
The reality was, 101 was days or even hours from annihilation.
Monty followed the plan of Auchinleck, whom he had relieved, and knew how long he could sustain an all-out attack against the Germans, timing the end to correspond to the US landings in Rommel’s backfield. Rommel’s after-action expressed some mystification that Monty didn’t have a plan of pursuit after the Germans went on the run.
The resemblance was even more marked circa 1990, when he was TV-interviewed about his then-latest book.
I've been to one of those cemeteries near Nijmegen. Too many. We were on our honeymoon and the guy who ran the pension took us there without asking. Those people remembered the War and still hold the Germans in a contempt we later in the trip came to adopt by their general boorishness in Holland. I recall with fondness going to a bar in Beek and the guys had an American flag with 48 stars on the wall. They asked me which star was California, but my Dutch was so bad I couldn't get them to understand. We loved southern Holland, especially bicycling there.
I have family from Enkhausen near Arnhem, an area that suffered terribly in that battle. Some of them died in the Shoah (holocaust). I didn't know at the time I met them that they were Jewish, and so apparently am I in part. It's a strange story.
” timing the end to correspond to the US landings in Rommel’s backfield”
That landing put our newly arrived and inexperienced army in the command of Lloyd Fredendall, whom Rommel cut to pieces at Kasserine Pass. Fortunately Rommel had his own supply problems at the time. Patton would replace Fredendall. Rommel then fought Montgomery one last time and left for Germany.
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