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. Part Eleven: Local Citizens Welcomed troops Bound for Combat
Recommended Reading: Clearwater: a Pictorial History, by Michael L. Sanders; Yesterday’s Clearwater, by Hampton Dunn; a History of Pinellas County, By W.L. Straub; and Clearwater: a Sparkling City, by Roy Cadwell.
We are working on the next editions of the series to bring it up to the present. If your life, or your family’s or your neighbor’s is an interesting chapter in Clearwater history, please write to Freedom Magazine c/o Church of Scientology, 503 Cleveland Street 33755, or call (727) 467-6860 or e-mail coscw@scientology.org.
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