Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force

And then Mike includes the address that was circulated, the letter that was circulated from Eisenhower.

Soldiers, sailors, and airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force, you are about to embark upon the great crusade toward which we have striven these many months.

The eyes of the world are upon you.

The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you.

Then it was Alfred Jodl's turn to add his signature.

Then the Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Expeditionary Force, Dwight D. Eisenhower, announced that as of 23.01 hours, Central European Time, on May the 8th, 1945, the war would be over.

We, the undersigned, acting by authority of the German High Command, hereby surrender unconditionally to the Supreme Commander, Allied Expeditionary Force, and simultaneously to the Soviet High Command, all forces on land, sea, and in the air who are at this date under German control.

When Joseph Stalin heard of the capitulation in Reims, he was beside himself with rage and demanded that the ceremony be repeated in his own sphere of influence.

But the news from Reims had already been made public.

His arrival triggers a more intense focus on the upcoming invasion, Operation Overlord.

Within a week, Ike holds the first meeting with his staff and the commanders at the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force, a.k.a. SHAFE, in Norfolk House, London.

His men are as follows.

Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsey, Commander of Naval Forces.

A rare combination of talent and humility helped him rise through the ranks to general of the US Army.

Eisenhower headed some of the most important Allied offensives during the war, none more significant than his role as Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force, leading the operation to cross the English Channel into France on June 6, 1944.

The Normandy invasion was the largest amphibious attack in history, using naval ships to launch a land and air offensive.

Less than a year after the invasion, Germany had surrendered.

In the Great Minds section, which encompasses a great big what if, I want to talk about Dwight David Eisenhower, who made his mark on history by being a great strat- uh, strategist and a great administrator, but he had a very big mind as well, this humble man from the, the Midwest of the United States.

Better known for his title, Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force, which was D-Day.

Ike, as he came to be called in the United States, was born on October 14th, 1890.

This yesterday was his birthday.

The two things are, in this respect, more similar than they might appear.

The Eisenhower Matrix is a time management tool named after Dwight D. Eisenhower, the 34th president of the United States, who was also the supreme commander of the Allied Expeditionary Forces in Europe during the Second World War, and who apparently once said that the urgent and the important are seldom the same.

Whether he actually said this in those exact words is a matter of some historical debate, but the sentiment is attributed to him with enough confidence that the productivity industry has built an entire framework around it.

The matrix divides tasks into four quadrants based on two axes, urgent versus not urgent and important versus not important.

Yeah, yeah

... [laughs] as, as the SHAEF commander.

He's a master at maintaining an even keel.

And so that-