Eisenhower as the Supreme Commander of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and as the President of the Columbia University.

Highlights the military career of US General Dwight D Eisenhower from 1945 to 1952. Depicts notable scenes and events starting on D Day. Allied Forces invade France. Allied planes drop bombs on the enemy positions. Allied troops land on the shores of France. US tanks move forward. Allied soldiers advance towards Saint Lo. Fight in the area. General Patton Forces move forward. French troops and the soldiers of the US 5th Core march through Paris. The civilians cheer. Allied soldiers move towards the German border fighting on their way. The Battle of Bulge- when the Germans turned counter offensive. The bridge at Remagen on the river Rhine. Allied troops cross the bridge. Allied troops on the offensive, west of the Rhine. The enemy surrenders. Rubble on the streets. General Eisenhower with the troops. Officials sign documents in a school to mark German surrender. Eisenhower makes a speech at the end of the war. Eisenhower, in Paris, waves at the people from an open carriage. People welcome him in his homeland with a ticker tape parade in New York City. Eisenhower waves at the people gathered at the side of the streets from an open car of a motorcade. Eisenhower swears in as the 1st post war Chief of Staff of the US Army. He visited troops in various parts of the world. He salutes and moves towards a car with his wife as he leaves active military life. Pictures of Eisenhower as he becomes the president of the Columbia University. He reviews the troops as he becomes the Supreme Commander of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Eisenhower on European soil. He enters a car. He assumes supreme command of the land, the sea and the air force. Against the threat from the USSR he prepares the European Armies. Soldiers enter into a train. He reviews troops. General Eisenhower and General Matthew Ridgway salute. He enters into a plane with his wife. Painting of Eisenhower being sworn in as President of the United States. Eisenhower Library in Abilene, Kansas, two boys leaving the Library.