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Sankey War Scrapbook Page 41

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Sankey War Scrapbook Page 39

Interesting tidbit about dollar-a-year men (reminds me of Steve Jobs). Also description of a huge air raid on Berlin, which notes it was the 53rd, reminds both of how sustained the allied air game was at the time and also of where all the US industrial production was, in large part, going.

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Sankey War Scrapbook Pages 37 and 38

Canada makes a dramatic appearance on page 38, gunning down some U-Boats. And FDR mixes some threats toward unions in with his threats about the Nazis. Does make you realize just how much of an urgent war footing the US was on already.

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Text of FDR’s speech continues – there’s quite a bit of this, just wholesale publishing of his speeches. I’m actually fairly curious about the claims of Nazi documents on the previous page. Was the Nazi church a real plan? And their plans to carve up South America?

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Eastern Front rages on: 300,000 Russian dead in first three weeks.

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Lots of interesting news including a possible strike and an America First rally featuring Charles Lindbergh.

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Bunch of news coming out of Vichy France.

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The “franking” scandal continues and the Battle of the Atlantic heats up.

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Interesting article here about German spies allying with a sitting senator (who mysteriously died in a plane crash), a publishing house and “America Firsters” to spread pro-Nazi materials.

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