Editing Kay Summersby (section)

{{short description|British chauffeur and secretary to Dwight D. Eisenhower}}
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{{Infobox military person
|name               = Kay Summersby<br><small>[[British Empire Medal|BEM]]</small>
|image              = Kay Summersby.jpg
|caption            = Summersby in 1944
|birth_name         = Kathleen Helen MacCarthy-Morrogh
|birth_date         = {{Birth date|1908|11|23|df=yes}}
|death_date         = {{Death date and age|1975|1|20|1908|11|12|df=yes}}
|birth_place        = [[County Cork]], [[Ireland]]
|death_place        = [[Southampton, New York]], U.S.
|nickname           =
|allegiance         = {{UK}}<br />{{US}}
|branch             = [[Mechanised Transport Corps]] (UK)<br />[[Women's Army Corps (United States Army)|Women's Army Corps]] (US)
|serviceyears       = 1939–1947
|rank               = [[Captain (United States O-3)|Captain]]
|unit               =
|commands           =
|battles            = [[World War II]]
|awards             = [[Bronze Star Medal]]<br />[[Women's Army Corps Service Medal]]<br />[[European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal|European Campaign Medal]]<br />[[World War II Victory Medal]]<br />[[Army of Occupation Medal]]<br />[[British Empire Medal]]
|relations          =
|laterwork          =
}}

{{external image|image1=[http://images.ewins.com/digital_asset_manager/image_resize.php?vi=417544&mdx=800 Bust portraits of Dwight D. Eisenhower and Kay Summersby Morgan]<ref>{{citation |title=Bust portraits of Dwight D. Eisenhower and Kay Summersby Morgan |url=http://popartmachine.com/item/pop_art/LOC+1099723/%5BBUST-PORTRAITS-OF-DWIGHT-D.-EISENHOWER-AND-KAY-SUMMERSBY-MORGAN%5D... |id=cph 3b20861 |publisher=Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division via Popartmachine.com |access-date=1 April 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120218012559/http://popartmachine.com/item/pop_art/LOC%2B1099723/%5BBUST%2DPORTRAITS%2DOF%2DDWIGHT%2DD.%2DEISENHOWER%2DAND%2DKAY%2DSUMMERSBY%2DMORGAN%5D... |archive-date=18 February 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref>}}

'''Kathleen Helen Summersby''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|BEM}} (née '''MacCarthy-Morrogh'''; 23 November 1908&nbsp;– 20 January 1975), known as '''Kay Summersby''', was a member of the British [[Mechanised Transport Corps]] during World War II, who served as a chauffeur and later as personal secretary to [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] during his period as [[Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force|Supreme Commander Allied Expeditionary Force]] in command of the [[Allies of World War II|Allied]] forces in north west Europe.

Summersby and Eisenhower spent a significant amount of time together until World War II ended, at which time Eisenhower cut ties and returned to the United States. It is generally agreed that Summersby and Eisenhower became extremely close during the war; some writers have suggested a sexual relationship between the two, although people who knew both of them at the time have rejected that claim, as have most of Eisenhower's biographers.