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Mr. Churchill's Visit to America: On Board H.M.S. "Duke of York," 1941
Soon after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Churchill left Britain for additional face-to-face talks with President Roosevelt. Churchill's daughter, Mary, received his farewell salute on board the HMS Duke of York, a new British battleship. On the dangerous, stormy journey to America he wrote a series of memoranda setting forth his views on the best way to defeat the Axis. He also told a fellow passenger that the United States could shorten the war by not trying to defend each town on the Pacific from the Japanese: "Let the raider come-what does it matter."
Object Details:
Photograph. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (144)
Related Theme:
Forebears and Family
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