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World War II. When Britain entered the Second World War in 1939, Kay Summersby joined the British Mechanised Transport Corps (MTC). She drove an ambulance throughout the London Blitz in 1940 and 1941, and was reportedly excellent at navigating London streets during blackouts and fog.
May 28, 1995 · The end of World War II in Europe signaled the end of the road for chauffeur Kay Summersby’s three-year relationship with her boss, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower.
May 28, 1995 · The end of World War II in Europe signaled the end of the road for chauffeur Kay Summersby's three-year relationship with her boss, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Jan 21, 1975 · Kay Summersby Morgan, who was confidential secretary, driver and confidante to General of the Army. Dwight D. Eisenhower during World War II, died yesterday of cancer of the liver in...
Jun 6, 1991 · A previously unknown collection of wartime letters from Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower to his driver, Capt. Kay Summersby, appears likely to stir renewed debate over whether the two were lovers...
Nov 20, 2015 · Ike (who was by 1945 chief of staff) eventually decided to ship her to California, 3,000 miles away from his office at the Pentagon. Kay left the army shortly after being the victim of an attempted rape — her attacker got 15 years. Even then, the Summersby-Eisenhower relationship was not over.
Jun 11, 2014 · In his World War II private diary, Dwight Eisenhower notes that his wartime aide and driver, Kay Summersby (to whom he became sufficiently close to generate rumors, both then and later), has...
