President Eisenhower, the former Supreme Allied Commander of World War 2, once walked out of a D-Day classic movie he almost starred in.

Before he was a two-term Commander in Chief, President Dwight D Eisenhower was the Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe.

The five-star US Army General famously planned and oversaw the D-Day landings, which took place 81 years ago today. Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT

In fact, Brendan Fraser stars as Ik e in the upcoming World War 2 film Pressure, which is set during the run-up to Operation Overlord.

After his presidency concluded in 1961, Eisenhower almost starred as himself in John Wayne’s D-Day movie The Longest Day .

However, makeup artists couldn’t make him look as young as he did in 1944. Nevertheless,

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