Order of the Day issued by Gen Dwight D. Eisenhower to members of the Allied Expeditionary Forces
date: label: associated dates
content: 1944 06 04 / 1944 06 04
label: associated dates
content: 1944 06 04 / 1944 06 04
notes: label: Description
content: Issued to all 175,00 personnel of the Allied Expeditionary Forces either on 5 June or the early hours of 6 June, this Order of the Day message encapsulated the mission and extreme importance of the invasion force. Drafted and refined since February, 1944, General Dwight D. Eisenhower - supreme commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force - recorded himself reading the message on 28 May for broadcast on American and British radio on 6 June itself.
label: Description
content: U.S. Army Private Howard Irvin Moorefield (1913-2011) of Greensboro, North Carolina received this copy of the order in the early hours of 6 June. Whereas many soldiers cast the order aside, Moorefield signed and folded the document for safekeeping. After discovering the document decades later among other war mementos, he donated the order to the National Museum of American History.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: associated place
content: United States
label: associated place
content: United States
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content: Military and Society: Armed Forces History, Military
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1984.0474.01
label: catalog number
content: 1984.0474.01
label: accession number
content: 1984.0474
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Letter
label: Object Name
content: letter
label: Other Terms
content: Letter; Documents; Army
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 15.4 cm x 23.2 cm; x 6 1/16 in x 9 1/8 in