Stage Three.  When the portrait busts of Ike’s six lieutenants have been subscribed, the Foundation will be in a position to proceed with the third stage of the sculptural program, which includes  the emplacement of additional portrait busts at the four entrances to the northern quadrants of the Memorial.  The busts will be set upon granite-capped, concrete gateposts.  The two gateposts nearest the garden will carry portraits of Sir Winston S. Churchill and President Franklin D. Roosevelt, to the northeast and northwest respectively.  At the eastern entrance of the walk leading to Elmon T. Gray Plaza, the action on the European Theater’s eastern front will be acknowledged with a portrait  of  Marshal  Joseph  Stalin,  General  Secretary  of  the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.  The bust emplaced at the entrance of the western walk to Gray Plaza will portray Generalissimo Ji-ng Zh-ngzhèng (Chiang Kai-shek), President of the Republic of China, and thereby draw attention to concurrent operations affecting the Pacific Theater.  


President Harry S. Truman and the Rt. Hon. Clement Richard Attlee, Churchill’s successor, are the subjects of two busts to be set upon granite pedestals located to the east and west of the flagstaff at the southern end of Edward R. Stettinius Parade.  Those additional portraits will function as the Memorial’s most accessible touchstones for framing the lessons and legacy of D-Day in context of the global landscape of the Second World War.  From 1941 through 1945, each of those leaders attended one or more of the strategic conferences of World War II.  It was during those meetings (at Quebec, Cairo, Tehran, Potsdam, etc.) that the operational policies for winning the war and securing the peace were articulated and adopted.