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“…your mission
remains fixed…
it is to win wars.”
A Storied Past
Duty, Honor, Country.
General Eisenhower’s Secret D-Day Message
A Storied Past
Duty, Honor, Country.
General Fred F. Franks’ Perseverance
A Storied Past
General George Washington
A Storied Past
Sylvanus Thayer
“Father of the Academy”
Superintendent 1817 – 1833
A Storied Past
Robert E. Lee
General in Chief, Confederate Armies
Ulysses S. Grant
General in Chief, Armies of the United States
A Storied Past
Thomas ‘Stonewall’ Jackson
Corps Commander of the Confederate Army
William Tecumseh Sherman
Commander of the Armies of the United States
A Storied Past
John J. Pershing
Commander of American Expeditionary Forces
A Storied Past
George S. Patton
Commander of the 3rd
Army European Theater
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Supreme Commander Allied
Forces Europe
Omar Bradley
Douglas D. MacArthur
Supreme Commander
of the Pacific
Commanding General
lst Army, 12th Army
Group European Theater
A Storied Past
Norman Schwarzkopf
Commander-in-Chief,
Central Command, Operation Desert Storm
A Storied Past
A Storied Past
Full Spectrum of Combat
War to Humanitarian Peacekeeping
• West Point film festival
• Gala concert at New York’s Carnegie Hall
• White House proclamation
• Exhibit at the Smithsonian Museum in
Washington, D.C.
• Commemorative Bicentennial coin
• Commemorative Bicentennial stamp
• Engineering Design contest for middle school students
• Founders Day Bicentennial Celebration simulcast worldwide
Timeless Leadership
West Point ‘A Holy Place’
West Point ‘A Holy Place’
West Point ‘A Holy Place’
West Point ‘A Holy Place’
West Point
Two Centuries of History
West Point
Two Centuries of History
West Point
Two Centuries of History
West Point
Two Centuries of History