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Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill at the Atlantic Conference, 08/09/1941. Credit: National Archives.
Seventy Years Ago and Seven Days Before December 7, 1941
By: Jean Sasson | November 30, 2011
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Date: November 30, 1941
Place: London, England

With: Winston Churchill, Prime Minister

Family members and a few close friends were enjoying a brief and quiet birthday celebration with Winston Churchill, who turned sixty-seven years old on November 30, 1941.

Churchill was generally attentive and pleasant during private events, but on this day his thoughts were elsewhere.

Normally occupied with all things Hitler, Churchill’s mind was in the Pacific, and specifically with the Japanese, and what the latest military intelligence information meant for the British.

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