page_title: Harry C. Butcher
section_title: Military career
hierarchical_section_title: Harry C. Butcher / Military career
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Signature de la reddition le 7 mai 1945 à Reims, par Major Wilhelm Oxenius, General Alfred Jodl, General Admiral Hans-Georg von Friedeburg (officiers allemands, tous trois de dos, de droite à gauche), sir F E Morgan, François Sevez, Harold Burrough, Harry C. Butcher, Walter Bedell Smith, Ivan Cherniaev, Ivan Sousloparov, Carl Spaatz, Henri Bull (une très petite partie de sa tête est présente à l'angle de la table), John Robb, Ivan Zenkovitch (de face, de gauche à droite). K W D Strong est probablement debout à gauche, derrière les officiels allemands, et on ne voit de lui qu'un pan de veste. English: Signature of surrender on 7 May 1945 at Reims, with Major Wilhelm Oxenius, General Alfred Jodl, General Admiral Hans-Georg von Friedeburg (all three German officers seen from behind from right to left). At the back, from left to right, Sir F E Morgan, François Sevez, Harold Burrough, Harry C. Butcher, Walter Bedell Smith, Ivan Cherniaev, Ivan Sousloparov, Carl Spaatz, Henri Bull (facing up the table), John Robb, Ivan Zenkov (according the original caption, facing away, left to right). K W D Strong is standing on the left, behind the German officials, and we can only see of him a short part of his jacket.
context_page_description: Harry Cecil Butcher was an American radio broadcaster who served during World War II as the Naval Aide to General Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1942 to 1945.
context_section_description: During his tenure at WJSV, Butcher was commissioned a Lieutenant Commander in the United States Navy Reserve (U.S.N.R.) on September 16, 1939. From 1942 to 1945, Butcher served as the Naval Aide to General Dwight D. Eisenhower. On May 1, 1943, Butcher was promoted to the rank of Commander in the U.S.N.R. On November 1, 1944 he was promoted to the temporary rank of Captain. Following an order given to him by Eisenhower, Butcher kept a diary of his and Eisenhower's wartime activities. The diary would come to be published in 1946 under the title "My Three Years with Eisenhower." It also led to historian Max Hastings referring to him as "the embodiment of all gossip-ridden staff officers".
  It was Butcher who preserved the written statement that Eisenhower had prepared in the event that the D-Day invasions failed.
caption: Signature of surrender on 7 May 1945 at Reims, France, including Harry C. Butcher standing in the background
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