Mark Perry - Partners in Command

D ECEMBER 31, 1880 George Marshall is born in Uniontown, Pennsylvania.

O CTOBER 14, 1890 Dwight Eisenhower is born in Denison, Texas.

S EPTEMBER 1897 George Marshall enters the Virginia Military Institute.

F EBRUARY 1902 George Marshall is commissioned an officer in the U.S. Army.

M AY 1902 Marshall serves as an officer in the Philippines.

A UGUST 1906 Marshall attends the Army Staff College at Fort Leavenworth.

J UNE 14, 1911 Eisenhower enters the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.

J UNE 12, 1915 Eisenhower graduates from the U.S. Military Academy.

J ULY 1, 1916 Eisenhower marries Mamie Geneva Doud.

S EPTEMBER 13, 1915 Eisenhower serves as a second lieutenant with the 19th Infantry in Texas.

J UNE 1917 Marshall serves in the 1st Division in France.

J ULY 1917 Marshall is promoted to captain.

J ULY 1918 Marshall is appointed assistant chief of staff for operations of the American Expeditionary Force and meets Fox Conner.

N OVEMBER 1918 Dwight Eisenhower serves as a tank instructor at Fort Meade.

M AY 1919 Marshall is named aide-de-camp to General John J. Pershing.

A UGUST 1924 Marshall serves as executive officer of the 15th Infantry in Tientsin, China.

A UGUST 1927 Eisenhower attends the Army War College at Fort Leavenworth.

A UGUST 1927 Elizabeth Coles Marshall dies.

S EPTEMBER 1927 Marshall serves as an instructor at the Army War College.

N OVEMBER 1927 Marshall is assistant commander of the Infantry School at Fort Benning.

O CTOBER 1930 Marshall marries Katherine Tupper Brown.

J ULY 1933 Marshall serves as commanding officer of District I of the Civilian Conservation Corps.

J ULY 1938 Marshall is named assistant chief of staff of the U.S. Army and is head of the War Departments War Plans Division.

J ULY 1939 Marshall is named acting chief of staff, U.S. Army.

S EPTEMBER 1, 1939 Marshall is sworn in as the chief of staff of the U.S. Army; that evening, Germany invades Poland. World War II begins.

F EBRUARY 1940 Eisenhower is chief of staff of the 3rd Division in San Antonio.

D ECEMBER 18, 1941 Eisenhower is called by Bedell Smith and is assigned to the Office of the Chief of Staff, War Plans Division, Washington, D.C.

D ECEMBER 1941 Arcadia Conference is held in Washington.

F EBRUARY 16, 1942 Dwight Eisenhower is promoted to head of the War Plans Division.

M ARCH 16, 1942 Eisenhower memo on the strategy for the war is adopted by George Marshall.

M ARCH 23, 1942 Eisenhower is named assistant chief of staff of the Operations Division by Marshall.

J UNE 24, 1942 Dwight Eisenhower is named commander of the European theater of operations.

J ULY 7, 1942 Eisenhower is promoted to lieutenant general and shortly thereafter begins planning for Operation Torch.

N OVEMBER 8, 1942 Operation Torch: U.S. and British forces land in North Africa.

J ANUARY 1423, 1943 Marshall and Eisenhower attend the Casablanca Conference.

F EBRUARY 19, 1942 U.S. forces are defeated by Rommel at the Battle of Kasserine Pass.

M ARCH 2, 1943 German forces begin their withdrawal from Tunisia.

M ARCH 1943 Lloyd Fredendall is succeeded by George Patton.

M ARCH 16, 1943 The Battle of El Guettar, Patton defeats Rommel.

M AY 1, 1943 The Battle of Hill 609 ends the North Africa campaign.

M AY 1225, 1943 Trident Conference in Washington, D.C.

J ULY 910, 1943 Operation Husky: The U.S. and its allies invade Sicily.

J ULY 25, 1943 The fascist Italian government is overthrown.

A UGUST 10, 1943 George Patton slaps a soldier in Sicily.

A UGUST 17, 1943 Pattons troops enter Messina in Sicily.

A UGUST 1943 Quadrant Conference in Quebec.

S EPTEMBER 9, 1943 Operation Avalanche: Allies invade Italy at Salerno.

S EPTEMBER 11, 1943 Germans occupy Rome.

S EPTEMBER 17, 1943 Dwight Eisenhower confers with Mark Clark at Salerno.

N OVEMBER 1943 George Patton is reprimanded by Eisenhower.

N OVEMBER 17, 1943 Eisenhower-Churchill meeting at Malta.

N OVEMBER 19, 1943 Marshall, Churchill, Roosevelt, and Eisenhower meet in Tunis for a full briefing on the war.

N OVEMBER 23, 1943 Sextant I meeting in Cairo.

N OVEMBER 28, 1943 Eureka Conference in Tehran; Roosevelt, Churchill, meet with Stalin.

D ECEMBER 7, 1943 Roosevelt informs Eisenhower of his command of Overlord.

J ANUARY 2, 1944 Dwight Eisenhower confers with George Marshall in Washington.

J ANUARY 13, 1944 Eisenhower returns to England.