Command. It was used for two high level meetings of the Supreme Allied Command of General Dwight D. Eisenhower held in late June and mid-July 1944, with attendees including Henry Stimson, George Marshall, and Admiral Ernest King. After the agreement to proceed with a design for the Mulberry harbours for the 1944 Normandy landings, Gibson created the detailed design for the Phoenix breakwaters. Under the direction of Major General Sir Harold Augustus Wernher, Gibson oversaw the fabrication of the Concrete Phoenix Caissons across Southern England and created the special 'Winterization' process to safeguard the breakwaters during the winter of 1944. Post-war career After the war Gibson decided due to his age to change his professional focus, designing in collaboration with the British Iron and Steel Federation, two prototype steel framed prefab houses to house families made homeless by enemy action. Eventually more than 30,000 BISF houses were built. Death and burial Gibson died aged 61 in 1947 and is buried in Stanwell Burial Ground. In 1948 his estate sold Stanwell Place with its residual to King Faisal II of Iraq. In 1956 Faisal II still owned Stanwell Place and Gibson's sons still owned the residual of Stanhope farm. Gibson's widow Lady Lilian died in 1962 and is buried with him. Legacy In 2015, the Happy Landing pub in Clare Road, Stanwell was renamed the "Sir John Gibson". References Sources 1885 births 1947 deaths English civil engineers Knights Bachelor Officers of the Order of the British Empire People from Middlesbrough