Office of the Historian

Roosevelt Papers: Telegram

President Roosevelt to Prime Minister Churchill1 secret

operational priority
London, 14 January 1944.

Number 441, personal and secret, from the President for the Former Naval Person.

Your 536.2 It is my understanding that in Teheran U. J. was given a promise that Overlord be launched during May and supported by strongest practicable Anvil at about the same time and that he agreed to plan for simultaneous Russian attack on Eastern front.3

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Roosevelt
  1. Sent to the United States Naval Attaché, London, via Navy channels.↩
  2. Ante, p. 865.↩
  3. See ante, pp. 576–577.↩