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Military Files

1942-1945

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/578525

Papers consist of two groups of material: first, messages sent or received by the President and by his immediate family and advisors; and, second, documents sent to the White House by the War or Navy Departments for the President's information. There are fewer papers in the first group, which records the actions taken personally by President Roosevelt and his staff on the major diplomatic and military questions of the war. It included the messages exchanged by President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill, Marshal Stalin, and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, and much of the President's correspondence with the Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Navy and the Joint Chiefs of Staff. It was the President's wish to have in the Map Room the only complete file of the personal messages he exchanged with Churchill, Stalin, and Chiang Kai-shek, and for this reason messages from the Map Room were sent through Navy Department communications facilities and replies were received through the War Department. Thus, neither Department has a complete file.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum

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Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum

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