ALLIED SUPREME COMMANDER
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
VISITS MARGAM CASTLE HQ AND ISLAND FARM

In spite of the immense secrecy, the people of Bridgend got to learn that General Dwight d. Eisenhower had made a visit to the camp and it was from on top of a truck, in totally broken rank formation that he urged his men, with their help, he could thrash the Germans. .

EISENHOWER VISITS TROOPS AT MARGAM CASTLE AND ISLAND FARM

April 1944

General Dwight D. Eisenhower in the grounds of Margam Castle

Margam Castle today
Red Arrow marks approximate location

Eisenhower

General Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Allied Supreme Commander

SHAEF Patch

Note the SHAEF (Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Forces) patch on his shoulder.

Eisenhower was officially designated the Supreme Commander on 12 February 1944 and SHAEF was activated the next day.

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