FDR: “Women in London- mothers of families- are just as important in the defense of Britain as men on a destroyer.”

As their Commander in Chief I call upon you, my fellow Americans, to oversubscribe the 1945 Red Cross War Fund.

It seems obvious that we will be more or less responsible for security in all the Pacific waters.

I do know it will come, and I do know that tonight there are over seven and a half million Americans overseas or fighting afloat in this great war.

This year we give as well in necessity—necessity for our own.