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Kathleen Helen Summersby BEM (née MacCarthy-Morrogh; 23 November 1908 – 20 January 1975), known as Kay Summersby, was a member of the British Mechanised Transport Corps during World War II, who served as a chauffeur and later as personal secretary to Dwight D. Eisenhower during his period as Supreme Commander Allied Expeditionary Force in command of the Allied forces in north west Europe.
May 28, 1995 · The end of World War II in Europe signaled the end of the road for chauffeur Kay Summersby's three-year relationship with her boss, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. Her face was censored from the official photo taken by Technical Sgt. Al Meserlin, Ike's personal photographer, on that May morning in 1945 when the Germans surrendered at the red-brick schoolhouse in Reims, France.
May 28, 1995 · The end of World War II in Europe signaled the end of the road for chauffeur Kay Summersby’s three-year relationship with her boss, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Jun 6, 1991 · A previously unknown collection of wartime letters from Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower to his driver, Capt. Kay Summersby, appears likely to stir renewed debate over whether the two were lovers during ...
Nov 20, 2015 · EVERYONE WAS TALKING about them – General Dwight D Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander for Europe, and his Irish-born driver, Kay Summersby. The gossip was that the American general – the driving force behind Operation Torch , the invasion of Sicily and Italy and the planning for D-Day – was having an affair with his driver, 18 years his junior.
Jun 11, 2014 · But World War II was not the first time Ike felt the ordeal of losing a son. The first child born to Mamie and Dwight Eisenhower was named Doud Dwight. On D-Day 1944, he would have been 26 years ...
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Mar 11, 2018 · Kay Summersby ,from Co Cork, first met Dwight D Eisenhower when assigned to chauffeur him during a wartime visit to London. She called him the boss and his nickname for her was "Irish". General ...
