The 70th Anniversary of D-Day is this Friday.
In December of 1943, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Premier Joseph Stalin convened for the Teheran Conference. The Big Three committed to setting a date for an invasion of southern France, code-named OVERLORD.
Stalin had asked that a commander in chief be selected for the invasion. FDR chose General Dwight D. Eisenhower as Supreme Commander, Allied Expeditionary Force.
The Big Three signed the Military Conclusions of the Teheran Conference. Shown here, it summarized the agreements made for OVERLORD, including the coordination of a “cover plan to mystify and mislead the enemy.”
Watch this space for more history of the D-Day Normandy Landings from the FDR Library and the Eisenhower Library.
Images: The Big Three at the Teheran Conference. November 29, 1943.
The Military Conclusions of the Teheran Conference.
The White House Stenographer’s Diary entry for June 6, 1944.
FDR and Dwight D. Eisenhower on airplane en route from North Africa to Sicily shortly after the Eisenhower was selected as Supreme Commander, Allied Expeditionary Force. December 8, 1943.
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