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They are risking their lives every hour so that guns and tanks and planes and ammunition and food may be carried to the heroic defenders of Stalingrad and to all the United Nations' forces all over the world.
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Roosevelt honors the bravery of Merchant Marine members who risk their lives to support the war effort.
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