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New Year, New Strategies
As 1943 drew to a close, and after meetings in Tehran with Churchill and Stalin, President Roosevelt named General Dwight D. Eisenhower as Supreme Commander of the Anglo-American Forces and charged him with the task of opening a second front against Germany.
America marked the second anniversary of Pearl Harbor with the launching of the 52,000-ton battleship Wisconsin and the completion of its 150,000th warplane.
As Clearwater’s third wartime Christmas was observed, churches were crowded with parishioners whose prayers were with the city’s 900 men and women in the armed forces who would not be home for the holidays. Their sacrifices and those of the citizens who stayed behind stand as a testament to a city that helped to keep the flame of freedom alight.
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