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FDR: I am directing the War Shipping Administration, under appropriate bare boat arrangements, to number to your flag for…

On the recordAugust 2, 1943
I am directing the War Shipping Administration, under appropriate bare boat arrangements, to number to your flag for temporary wartime duty during each of the suggested next ten months a minimum of fifteen ships.
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FDR
Democratic · New York

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Letter to Churchill on the Transfer of Merchant Craft to Great Britain

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