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We are now in the third year of this terrible war. We are spurred by the grim determination to wage this war relentlessly on all fronts and on all seas until all those who have chosen to live by the sword have perished by it. We now have neither the time nor the inclination for self-appraisal. But when the time comes for the historians to write the record of our participation in this great struggle they will undoubtedly state that at this present period we had reached the turning point of the war. I do not pretend that they will write that within these past two years we had accomplished any major part of the fighting which gained the final victory NARA

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