Placentia Bay. Before the storm -- Pearl Harbor. The U.S. is attacked! ; Hitler's gamble -- Churchill in the White House. The victory plan ; Supreme command ; The President's Map Room -- Trouble with ...
Inside this issue, the lead Fighting Yank story begins with President Roosevelt himself, delivering his speech and promising, "In 1943 America will build 125,000 planes… 75,000 tanks… 35,000 ...
America’s 26th president forged himself by pitching headlong into conflict, according to this perceptive biography. Historian Brown (A Hell of a Storm) recaps Roosevelt’s combative life starting with ...
Editor's note: The American public still didn't know the extent of the losses at Pearl Harbor or throughout the Pacific when President Franklin D. Roosevelt addressed a war message to Congress on Dec.
One of the most bitter political debates in U.S. history produced one of the United States’ greatest foreign policy accomplishments. President Franklin Roosevelt signs H.R. 1776, the Lend-Lease Act, ...
"To mark the 75th anniversary of D-day, here is the final triumph--and tragedy--of FDR as U.S. wartime commander in chief, the Allies' key strategist, and prophet of the postwar world. Nigel ...
Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Share on X (Opens in new window) X HYDE PARK, N.Y. — On March 13, 1933, nine days after a newly elected Franklin D. Roosevelt declared in his first ...