Eisenhower Staff Car  DD154(SL) 

Description: The Eisenhower Staff Car Set

Special Note: Just 750 have been produced

This latest “Strictly Limited” shows supreme Allied Commander General Dwight D. Eisenhower on a tour of inspection somewhere in southern England in the spring of 1944. His U.S. Army Staff Car comes complete with a female WAC driver. At Eisenhower’s side is Kay Summersby, his personal driver when he arrived in Britain in1942. Over the next three years she proved invaluable to him and took care of many of his domestic and personal tasks.

During this time Summersby became a U.S. citizen and was commissioned into the U.S. Women’s Army Corps (WAC’s) leaving the service as a Captain in 1947.