A Soldier's Story: General Dwight David Eisenhower - WWI, WWII, Korea
General Dwight David Eisenhower was born in Abilene, Kansas, on October 4, 1890. He graduated from Abilene High School in 1909. After high school, he worked at a creamery to contribute to his brother's college tuition for more than a year before receiving an appointment to West Point in 1911. He graduated from West Point in 1915. During World War I, he commanded a tank training center at Camp Colt and, in 1922, was in the Panama Canal Zone with General Fox Conner. He graduated from the Command and General Staff School, Fort Leavenworth, in 1926 and then reported and toured for the War Department until 1929. In 1933, he became General Douglas MacArthur's aide. At the beginning of World War II, General Dwight D. Eisenhower became the Chief of Staff of the Third Army and, later, in 1942, the Commander in Chief of the Allied Forces, commanding Operation Torch and D-Day. He was also the governor of the US Occupied Zone. After he retired from active service, General Dwight D. Eisen