Dwight David Eisenhower Biography and Timeline — Page 2

Operation Overlord

Appointed Supreme Allied Commander for Operation Overlord

Supreme Allied Commander

Appointed Supreme Allied Commander for Operation Overlord

Supreme Allied Commander

Appointed Supreme Allied Commander for Operation Overlord at the Cairo Conference

Role range: 1939-1945

Brigadier General

Appointed Army Brigadier General

Supreme Allied Commander

Appointed Supreme Allied Commander for western Europe. Appointed Supreme Allied Commander for the western Mediterranean. Appointed Supreme Allied Commander for North Africa

Brigadier General

Appointed Brigadier General

Role range: 1939-1945

Operation Roundup

The invasion of France is called off because of the cost of Operation Torch in Africa

Role range: 1939-1945

Supreme Allied Commander

Appointed Supreme Allied Commander in western Europe. Appointed Supreme Allied Commander in the western Mediterranean. Appointed Supreme Allied Commander for North Africa

Role range: 1939-1945

Operation Overlord

The Allies agree the plans for D-Day

Role range: 1939-1945

Supreme Allied Commander

The directive appointing Eisenhower Supreme Allied Commander for Overlord is issued. Appointed Supreme Allied Commander

Operation Overlord

The directive appointing Eisenhower Supreme Allied Commander for Overlord is issued

Role range: 1939-1945

Supreme Allied Commander

The directive appointing Eisenhower Supreme Allied Commander for Overlord is issued. Appointed Supreme Allied Commander

Role range: 1939-1945

Operation Overlord

Arrives in England to assume duties as Supreme Allied Commander of Operation Overlord

Role range: 1939-1945

Beaver

US D-Day beach landing training exercise (Operation Beaver) at Slapton Sands, Devon, demonstrate a dangerous lack of coordination between units

Role range: 1939-1945

Operation Overlord

US D-Day beach landing training exercise (Operation Beaver) at Slapton Sands, Devon, demonstrate a dangerous lack of coordination between units

Role range: 1939-1945

Operation Overlord

Montgomery presents his strategy for the invasion at St Pauls School, a ninety day battle, ending when all the forces reach the Seine, pivoting on an Allied-held Caen, with British and Canadian armies forming a shoulder & US armies wheeling right

Role range: 1939-1945 – 1942-1945

Operation Overlord

German torpedo boats nearly discover a mock landing but all 600 soldiers are drowned

Role range: 1939-1945

Operation Overlord

The Allied invasion force of 150,000 departs from England on 5,300 ships

Role range: 1939-1945

Operation Overlord

The weather in the Channel deteriorates & the Allied invasion force is recalled

Role range: 1939-1945

Operation Overlord

Postpones Operation Overlord, due 5th June, because of bad weather

Role range: 1939-1945

Operation Overlord

176,000 men & 20,000 vehicles are to be landed in 2 days

Role range: 1939-1945

Operation Overlord

Gives the go ahead for Operation Overlord for 6th June

Role range: 1939-1945

D-Day Failure Message

Writes a brief statement accepting personal responsibility in case the Normandy landings fail.

Role range: 1939-1945 – 1943-1945

Operation Overlord

The Allies land 130,000 men & 22,000 parachutists & lose 9,500 killed or wounded. The Allied landings take place with 487,653 men & 89,728 making it ashore. Plans & commands the Allied capture of Germany from D-Day

Role range: 1939-1945

D-Day Order of the Day

Issues his Order of the Day to Allied soldiers, sailors and airmen as the Normandy invasion begins.

Role range: 1939-1945 – 1943-1945

Allied Transit Base

Bayeux became a strategic transit and support centre for Eisenhower's Allied armies.

Role range: 1939-1945 – 1943-1945

Operation Dragoon

Churchill asks Eisenhower to cancel Dragoon in order to break the deadllock at Caen

Role range: 1939-1945

Siege of Caen

Churchill asks Eisenhower to cancel Dragoon in order to break the deadllock at Caen

Role range: 1939-1945

Normandy Logistics

Eisenhower's command relied on Bayeux as an undamaged link between the beaches and the fighting front.

Role range: 1939-1945 – 1943-1945

Direct Command of Allied Ground Forces

Assumes direct operational command of Allied ground forces in northwest Europe as the campaign advances beyond Normandy.

Role range: 1939-1945 – 1943-1945

First Army

Pattons 3rd Army is given the task of occupying the French region of Lorraine, General Hodgess First Army is ordered to breakthrough the front near the German city of Aachen

Role range: 1939-1945

Invasion of Germany

Pattons 3rd Army is given the task of occupying the French region of Lorraine, General Hodgess First Army is ordered to breakthrough the front near the German city of Aachen. Decides the next target would be the occupation of the Ruhr, the heartland of Germany's industrial capabilities

Role range: 1939-1945

Third Army

Pattons 3rd Army is given the task of occupying the French region of Lorraine, General Hodgess First Army is ordered to breakthrough the front near the German city of Aachen

Role range: 1939-1945

Capture of Aachen

The US 1st & 30th divisions of infantry capture Aachen

Role range: 1939-1945

Invasion of Germany

Orders destruction of German forces west of the Rhine to establish bridgeheads

Role range: 1939-1945

November Offensive

Orders destruction of German forces west of the Rhine to establish bridgeheads

Role range: 1939-1945

Offensive

Orders the November Offensive which destroys all German forces west of the River Rhine

Role range: 1939-1945

Battle of Schmidt

The US 28th Div of V Corps is repulsed at Schmidt

Role range: 1939-1945

Capture of Strasburg

The Allies capture Strasburg

Role range: 1939-1945

Conference of Maastricht

Insists that the advance into the Rhine be on a broad front

Role range: 1939-1945