Dwight D Eisenhower
 

DWIGHT D.
EISENHOWER
Supreme Allied Commander Europe
Camped here with
American troops
preparing for D-Day
1944
 

Dwight D. Eisenhower is the only American President to have set foot in Weston.

As Supreme Allied Commander Europe, he arrived in Weston and stayed one night in 1944 en-route to the D-Day landings.

The Town was filled with U.S Servicemen with officers billeted in hotels whilst other ranks slept in tents in Ellenborough Park.

Rather than pull rank, “Ike” opted to sleep in a caravan parked near the water tower in Weston Woods.



  Following the war, Eisenhower became Nato’s first Supreme Commander, and then US President from 1953 to 1961.

Plaque on the exterior wall of water tower in Weston Woods.