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80 years ago this week: US President Roosevelt’s secret wartime Manitoulin holiday preceded war-ending meetings

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The Expositor’s front page of August 12, 1943 shares the news that Franklin Delano Roosevelt had spent a number of days fishing at Birch Island. Important discussions that helped change the course of the war were held at that time.
The Expositor’s front page of August 12, 1943 shares the news that Franklin Delano Roosevelt had spent a number of days fishing at Birch Island. Important discussions that helped change the course of the war were held at that time.

EDITOR’S NOTE: The story below was written by US resident Philip Padgett, who wrote the book ‘Advocating OVERLORD: The D-Day Strategy and the Atomic Bomb in 2018.’ In the book it talks about a fishing trip President Roosevelt and others made to Birch Island 80 years ago this August 1-7. Mr. Padgett told The Expositor, […]

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