U.S. Military leaders leave the White House after conferring with President Roosevelt. Admiral Ernest J.

U.S. Military leaders leave the White House after conferring with President Roosevelt. Admiral Ernest J. King, Commander in Chief of the U.S. Fleet; General George C. Marshall, Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army, and General Henry H. Arnold, commander of the U.S. Army Air Forces (left to right), drive away from the White House, the executive mansion in Washington, the U.S. capital, after conferring with President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The conference occurred on June 6, 1944, the day on which Allied troops landed on the coast of northern France to launch the initial ground assault against the Germans in Western Europe.