Eisenhower during his military service. Courtesy: Dwight D. Eisenhower Library The career military man from Abilene, Kansas had just given the go-ahead to launch the greatest air and sea invasion ...

every President from Dwight Eisenhower to George H. W. Bush (except for Ronald Reagan, who spent World War II making wartime propaganda films in Hollywood) had been in uniform during World War II.

Prior to World War II, Dwight Eisenhower had resigned himself to finishing out a distinguished but unremarkable military career. By 1943, however, he found himself serving as Supreme Commander ...