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Embracing Our Military

Arsenal History Minutes | Peace Time Draft 1940

Special | 1mVideo has Closed Captions

Arsenal History Minutes | Peace Time Draft 1940 | WQPT

10/31/2014 | Rating NR

Embracing Our Military

Arsenal History Minutes | Peace Time Draft 1940

Special | 1mVideo has Closed Captions

Arsenal History Minutes | Peace Time Draft 1940 | WQPT

In the summer of 1940 World War II in Europe and the Pacific was in full swing. France was defeated in June; in July Japan occupied French Indochina. President Franklin D Roosevelt, who had tried to maintain US neutrality while supporting the democracies under threat, began to act more aggressively.

10/31/2014 | Rating NR

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Embracing Our Military

Arsenal History Minutes | Peace Time Draft 1940

Special | 1mVideo has Closed Captions

In the summer of 1940 World War II in Europe and the Pacific was in full swing. France was defeated in June; in July Japan occupied French Indochina. President Franklin D Roosevelt, who had tried to maintain US neutrality while supporting the democracies under threat, began to act more aggressively.

10/31/2014 | Rating NR

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