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FDR: Nowhere has the desire to avenge their comrades been stronger than among the forces of the Southwest Pacific.

On the recordOctober 19, 1944
Nowhere has the desire to avenge their comrades been stronger than among the forces of the Southwest Pacific.
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FDR
Democratic · New York

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Statement on the Landing of American Troops in the Philippines

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