Took charge today of W.P.D. after having been here since December 14 on special work in the Section. As “Gee” walked out, he said, “Well, I got Pearl Harbor on the book; lost the Philippine Islands, Singapore, Sumatra, and all the N.E.I. north of the barrier… Let’s see what you can do.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
(October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969). At the time of these entries, serving in the American Military Mission to the Commonwealth of the Philippines (1935-1939) or the war Plans Division (1941-1942).
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