Born in Texas in 1890, brought up in Abilene, Kansas, Eisenhower was the third of seven sons. He excelled in sports in high school, and received an appointment to West Point. |"Stationed in Texas as a second lieutenant,"| he met Mamie Geneva Doud, whom he married in 1916.

In his early Army career, he excelled in staff assignments, serving under Generals John J. Pershing, Douglas MacArthur, and Walter Krueger. After Pearl Harbor, General George C. Marshall called him to Washington for a war plans assignment. |"He commanded the Allied Forces landing in North Africa in November 1942;"| on D-Day, 1944, he was Supreme Commander of the troops invading France.

|"After the war, he became President of Columbia University,"| then took leave to assume supreme command over the new NATO forces being assembled in 1951. Republican emissaries to his headquarters near Paris |"persuaded him to run for President in 1952."|

Use the excerpt from a biography of Dwight D. Eisenhower’s life to answer the question.

Select the two highlighted phrases that cites his accomplishment during World War II.