History Forum / War History / World War II / July 2008

A U.S. Navy veteran says he saw General Eisenhower with King George VI
at an English port on June 5, 1944, and on D-Day. Is this true?
In other words, where was the king on June 5 and June 6, 1944?
Frank Warner

I'm editing the transcription that one of our volunteers did of the After
Action Reports of the 77th Armored Medical Battalion (7th Armored Division).
This will soon be posted to the 7AD Document Repository web site (which
moved to http://www.7tharmddiv.org/docrep/ on May 2).

FDR made a speech on DECEMBER 9, 1941 -- 10:00 PM, the day
before Germany and Italy declare war on US.
In this speech available here in full here
http://www.mhric.org/fdr/chat19.html