For Eisenhower, the outbreak of war promised action, combat, and promotion. But when war came, he did not go to France; he went to Fort Oglethorpe in Georgia, to train officer candidates. He yearned for orders that would get him into the war, and they seemed in the offing when he was posted to Camp Meade in Maryland, there to train an engineering battalion. But Eisenhower’s organizational abilities had been noted, and instead of being shipped to Europe he went to Camp Colt in Gettysburg in the spring of 1918, where he was tasked with building a new Tank
