FDR: “These men could not have been armed, and they could not be equipped as…”

On the recordOctober 26, 1944

These men could not have been armed, and they could not be equipped as they are, had it not been for the miracle of our production here back home.

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Democratic · New York

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Address at Shibe Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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