HTTP/1.1 302 Found Date: Fri, 09 May 2008 20:07:16 GMT Server: Apache/1.3.34 (Unix) mod_perl/1.29 mod_ssl/2.8.25 OpenSSL/0.9.8a Location: /cgi-bin/access.cgi?uri=%2Fvolume05%2Fchronology%2F73%3Fv%3D05%3Bm%3Dchronology%3Bp%3D73 Connection: close Transfer-Encoding: chunked, chunked Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Set-Cookie: session=38.103.63.17.50021210363636620; path=/ The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower
The Johns Hopkins University Press
The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower

Contents

volume 5 : chronology
Chronology The chronology for these four volumes begins with Eisenhower's assumption of the command of the European Theater of Operations. We have been unable to locate appointment schedules or other evidences of whom he saw for the six months when he was in the War Plans Division. Except for a short trip to West Point, he stayed close to Washington during that period. His position as theater commander involved meeting with many more individuals, as well as maintaining a more mobile schedule, and so required that both official and semiofficial records be kept of his activities. The most important of these records was a daily appointment log, kept from June 26, 1942, to the beginning of August, 1944, which provided a detailed account of the people Eisenhower saw while in his office. This material was supplemented by the office diary kept by Captain Harry C. Butcher, USNR, for the entire period, and by the comparable but much less extensive diary kept by Lieutenant Kay Summersby, WAC, from June, 1944, to April, 1945. These two office records, the incoming and outgoing messages and correspondence, the numerous published memoirs of many of the prominent military and political figures with whom Eisenhower came in contact during the war, and the volumes in the United States Army in World War II series all enabled us to present a fairly complete picture of Eisenhower's daily activities. Those people who have not been identified in the preceding volumes are identified briefly when they first appear, and their names are given in full with each subsequent mention. The names identified in the Papers are generally given in a shortened form, and initials are used to distinguish between people with similar names and ranks. In several cases names appear which we have been unable to identify completely, but we have attempted, whenever possible, to indicate nationality, and to include initials and rank or position.