FDR: “A steady stream of tanks and planes, of guns and ships and shells and…”

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A steady stream of tanks and planes, of guns and ships and shells and equipment--that is what these eighteen months have given us.

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Democratic · New York

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Roosevelt describes the significant military supplies produced during the previous months of preparation.

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