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My WW-2 Posters Collection Part 7 (1801-2100) It was a crazy work bit I have spent almost 6 hours to convert this huge PDF file into Images (JPG) to allow anyone who would be interested to get some of the Posters (free of use). [gallery link="file"]

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My WW-2 Posters Collection Part 6 (1501-1800) It was a crazy work bit I have spent almost 6 hours to convert this huge PDF file into Images (JPG) to allow anyone who would be interested to get some of the Posters (free of use). [gallery link="file"]

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My WW-2 Posters Collection Part 5 (1201-1500) It was a crazy work bit I have spent almost 6 hours to convert this huge PDF file into Images (JPG) to allow anyone who would be interested to get some of the Posters (free of use). [gallery link="file"]

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My WW-2 Posters Collection Part 4 (0901-1200) It was a crazy work bit I have spent almost 6 hours to convert this huge PDF file into Images (JPG) to allow anyone who would be interested to get some of the Posters (free of use). [gallery link="file"]

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My WW-2 Posters Collection Part 3 (0601-0900) It was a crazy work bit I have spent almost 6 hours to convert this huge PDF file into Images (JPG) to allow anyone who would be interested to get some of the Posters (free of use). [gallery link="file"]

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Kay Summersby – Ike Was my Boss (12)

Category : Archive Stories, Kay Summersby

The rest of that day is history. Personally, I spent it praying for the invaders … and, like the rest of his official family, aching with sympathy for our apprehensive Boss.
Gen Eisenhower stood the appalling strain for another day. Then, in the early morning of June 7 it was 0720-H, just twenty-six hours after H-Hour he left for Normandy’s beaches. I fled to the lonely comfort of our trailer-headquarters. Working on the General’s “fan mail” never seemed so difficult, so unimportant; but it helped smother worries.
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Kay Summersby – Ike Was my Boss (10)

Category : Archive Stories, Kay Summersby

Returning from Cairo to Algiers, I began digging away at the minor mountain of paper accumulated on my desk. Memories of Egypt and Palestine faded completely as I worked late each night to reduce those piles of the General’s fan mail. Like everyone else at headquarters, however, I was still busier on unofficial duties… working overtime on the old rumor that Gen Marshall, not Gen Ike, would head the new American Expeditionary Force building in Britain, and that Ike would go to Washington to become Chief of Staff.
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