Churchill models newest iPhone release, circa 1942. Can you hear me now? How 'bout now?
GIFs from "US reveals armed might for Churchill", 1942, NARA ID 38910 I can't see you. Can you see me?
#OTD 1945, Winston Churchill resigns as British Prime Minister By Miriam Kleiman, Public Affairs
The bromance between FDR and Churchill contributed to the Allied victory in WW2 and helped make the cigar-smoking British Prime Minister a favorite American icon.
30TH Infantry Division and Churchill cross the Rhine River, WW2. NARA ID 23484.
From "US reveals armed might for Churchill", 1942, NARA ID 38910.
FDR and Churchill in Casablanca, 1/22/1943, FDR Library, NARA ID 196991.
Churchill and FDR figurines gifted from Winston W. Stadig, 1941, FDR Library, NARA IDs MO 1945.8.5 and MO 1945.8.6.
From the FDR Library: Ten days after Germany invaded Poland (9/11/1939)- FDR wrote a confidential letter to Churchill, the newly-appointed political head of the British Royal Navy . FDR wanted to open a direct line of communication and encouraged Churchill to "keep me in touch personally with anything you want me to know about."
FDR's note was the start of an extraordinary six-year correspondence between the two men that totaled almost 2000 messages. Between 1941 and 1945, they spent 113 days together, starting with an August 1941 meeting in the North Atlantic and ending at Yalta in Feb., 1945.
More online:
FDR and Churchill, Teaching with Documents
War! Roosevelt and Churchill, Roosevelt Library
FDR, Churchill and their secret code names for Casablanca, Forward with Roosevelt blog, Roosevelt Library.
D-Day: FDR and Churchill’s “Mighty Endeavor” - Roosevelt Library
Roosevelt and Churchill: A Friendship That Saved The World, National Park Service
