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Dwight Eisenhower: West Point
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After graduating from high school, Eisenhower and his brother, Edgar, wanted to go to college. However, both could not afford to go. After considering, they decided to compromise. The first year, 1909, Edgar would go to school, while Dwight stayed home and earned the money for Edgar to attend college, and the next year, they would change places. Dwight stayed home, went to work with his father, and was able to send his brother over $200 dollars for his schooling. The next year... Dwight learned that if he was appointed to West Point Military Academy, he would get a free education. Though not particularly enthusiastic about joining the military, Eisenhower passed the entry exam and was appointed to West point in 1911.
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General Dwight D. Eisenhower was the closest any soldier ever came to being George Marshall's protégé. Eisenhower joined the General Staff in December 1941, and proceeded to excel at every leadership test to which the chief of staff could subject him. "George Marshall was rather a remote and austere person," recalled Ike, going by the nickname everyone in the army had used since he entered West Point. Marshall... always addressed him by his last name, and Eisenhower quickly discovered that Marshall's reputation for being all business was true in every respect.
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In 1942, Eisenhower was appointed Commanding General, European Theater of Operations (ETOUSA) and was based in London. In November, he was ... appointed Supreme Commander Allied (Expeditionary) Force of the North African Theater of Operations (NATOUSA) through the new operational Headquarters A(E)FHQ. The word "expeditionary" was dropped soon after his appointment for security reasons. In February 1943, his authority was extended as commander of AFHQ across the Mediterranean basin to include the British 8th Army, commanded by General Bernard Law Montgomery. The 8th Army had advanced across the Western Desert from the east and was ready for the start of the Tunisia Campaign. Eisenhower gained his fourth star and gave up command of ETOUSA to be commander of NATOUSA.
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Eisenhower was promoted to captain in 1917 when America joined World War One. Just two years into his army career, Eisenhower had already been identified by his superiors as a young officer with very good organisational skills. For this reason, Eisenhower was not posted abroad but sent to Camp Colt, Gettysburg. At this camp, one of America’s first tank units was being formed and it was Eisenhower’s task to train this unit. Such was the impression that he made that he was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal even though he had not seen combat in Western Europe.
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After a survey trip to Britain, Eisenhower was appointed commander of U.S. troops in Europe. Now a lieutenant general with three stars, he took charge of "Operation Torch," the Allied invasion of French North Africa. The landings there on November 8, 1942, met with merely temporary resistance from the French, and agreements with French Vichy leaders soon brought about Allied control of French North Africa. Eisenhower had been too cautious and landed too far west, which prolonged the campaign. After an unexpected defeat at Kasserine Pass, Eisenhower's forces crushed the Germans and Italians from the west while British General Bernard Montgomery mauled them from the east; the enemy surrendered in May 1943. Eisenhower next supervised the Allied invasion of Sicily (July, 1943), in which the enemy escaped with all their soldiers and supplies.
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Eisenhower was born on October 14, 1890 in Denison, Texas. However, he moved as an infant to Abilene, Kansas. He grew up in a very poor family and worked throughout his youth to earn money. He attended local public schools and graduated from high school in 1909. He joined the military in order to gain a free college education. He went to the West Point from 1911-1915.
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