Talk:Military career of Dwight D. Eisenhower

Untitled
Who was he allied with in World War One? Please tell! School Project!!!! Oops! I menan World War Two!:)


 * 1 you should sign your posts. #2 you should look in the military infobox #3 you spelled "mean" wrong.  :)  Mfields1 09:21, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment
This article is or was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Maggiemiller.

Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 04:08, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

Is this a mistake?
Brazil dildo award?

Is this a real award or is someone messing around... —Preceding unsigned comment added by Themagicmanfromtrent (talk • contribs) 18:36, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Tag & Assess 2008
Article reassessed and graded as start class. It's really just a list, but I think it could be expanded into a full article. --dashiellx (talk) 19:07, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

Naval Medal?
How did Eisenhower earn a Navy Distinguished Service Medal? To my knowledge, he only served in the Army and never in the Navy or the Marines. I tried to find evedence of this but only found pages referencing Wikipedia. Can anyone explain? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.181.26.250 (talk) 23:40, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
 * We can be dead sure, that he had earned it - see this obituary. The only online mention I've found about Eisenhowers's Navy Distinguished Service Medal is here - it reads "for exceptional meritorious service as Commander-in-chief of allied expeditionary forces during the simultaneous assault on Casablanca, Oran, Algiers, North Africa, in Nov. 1942" - though this page itself is hardly a reliable source, it seems like quite possible explanation for awarding other service's decoration. The other Army general who won Navy Distinguished Service Medal is Omar Bradley - perhaps with connection with other amphibious operation he held command in? --ja_62 (t 22:15, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

External links modified
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified one external link on Military career of Dwight D. Eisenhower. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20110601222428/http://www.presidentialtimeline.org/html/timeline.php?id=34 to http://www.presidentialtimeline.org/html/timeline.php?id=34

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

Cheers.— InternetArchiveBot  (Report bug) 23:42, 11 June 2017 (UTC)

External links modified (January 2018)
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 3 external links on Military career of Dwight D. Eisenhower. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20161118062616/https://eisenhower.archives.gov/all_about_ike/awards_medals.html to https://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/all_about_ike/awards_medals.html
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20161118062616/https://eisenhower.archives.gov/all_about_ike/awards_medals.html to https://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/all_about_ike/awards_medals.html
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20161118062616/https://eisenhower.archives.gov/all_about_ike/awards_medals.html to https://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/all_about_ike/awards_medals.html

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

Cheers.— InternetArchiveBot  (Report bug) 05:49, 31 January 2018 (UTC)

Regular Colonel
Was he ever a regular colonel? It doesn't appear on the list.

Many decades ago I read the Stephen Ambrose biog of him, and I seem to recall that during the Tunisian Campaign (early 1943) he failed his medical for promotion to regular colonel. In peacetime that would probably have been his final promotion before mandatory retirement in his mid fifties. Of course it was surreal as he was, at the time, an acting four-star general in the wartime army, and Supreme Allied Commander in the Mediterranean.

The list shows him, a little later, being appointed a regular brigadier-general and then major-general on the same day - that may have been by a different process, eg. Presidential or Congressional appointment (Pershing was famously promoted from captain to brigadier-general by President Teddy Roosevelt, as he was otherwise never going to get there on seniority). My understanding is that major-general was usually the highest regular rank until WW2 broke out - chiefs of staff like MacArthur were acting 4-star then retired as 2-stars. Happy to be corrected on these points by somebody who knows more.

Probably worth a footnote if somebody has the details.Paulturtle (talk) 01:32, 15 September 2021 (UTC)