Forward SHAEF HQ, Reims, France · April 12, 1945 On this date in 1945 President Franklin D. Roosevelt died in Warm Springs, Georgia, and Harry S. Truman became the thirty-third president of the United States. That same day the Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, informed his staff that neither…
Roosevelt was elected president in 1933, the year Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany. Roosevelt had served as Assistance Secretary of the Navy during Woodrow Wilson’s presidency. After contracting polio in 1921 he fought to resume his political career in his native New York State and was elected governor in 1928. In 1932 he was…
Harry S. Truman was the 33rd President of the United States, from 1945 to 1953, and Franklin D. Roosevelt’s third Vice President. He succeeded to the presidency on April 12, 1945, when President Roosevelt died less than three months after beginning his unprecedented fourth term. During World War I, Truman served in combat in France as…