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President Harry S. Truman and General Dwight D. Eisenhower aboard the USS Augusta en route to the Potsdam Conference in July of 1945. The Potsdam Conference began on July 17, 1945. Leaders from the U.S., the UK and the Soviet Union met to discuss occupied Germany and how it would be governed after WWII. Image via Wikimedia Commons, public domain

Operation Goodwood in Normandy, France was a British offensive against the German forces at the end of July 1944. It is called by some historians as ‘the

Collection: Ad*Access. Product: War Bonds. Medium: Magazine. Publication: Modern Industry. Company: Timken Roller Bearing Company. Genre: advertisements. Audience: Consumer. Date: 1944. Subject: Famous People, Military, Illustration, Painting, War, War Bonds, General Dwight D. Eisenhower. DCMI Type: Still Image.

Original wartime caption: General Dwight C. Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander of the British and U.S. Expeditionary Forces organising in the United Kingdom for the Liberation of Europe, photographed at his London headquarters. Picture issued 1944.

Future U.S. General of the Army and President Dwight D. Eisenhower was just a recently promoted and temporary brigadier general when the U.S. was dragged