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Brig-Gen. John Eisenhower
United States Army 71st Infantry Division
from:Trappe, MD
John Eisenhower, son of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, was a member of an accelerated wartime program at West Point, graduating on June 6, 1944 -by coincidence, the date of the Allied invasion of Normandy presided over by his father. Part of the new lieutenant's graduation leave was spent in Europe as an aide to his father.
The next month, he went to infantry school at Fort Benning and in October was assigned to the 71st Infantry Division, which was later sent to Europe