From this battle front American fighting troops send their grateful thanks to the workers of America for having made this the best equipped fighting force in all history. In this expression of our gratitude we are joined by our gallant Allies. The British units include in their category of weapons many types that you have produced. The French Divisions now fighting in southern and in northern France are equipped exclusively with the products of your toil and skill. Each of you justly shares in the credit for the tremendous successes the United Nations have gained on this important front.

We are supremely confident that we shall continue to defeat the enemy until, in company with the great Red Army and our forces in the Mediterranean we shall utterly destroy the Nazi threat to the free world.

Very definitely this confidence is based upon our faith in you - upon our conviction that, just as we are redoubling our efforts to drive forward to the heart of the enemy’s stronghold, you are going forward with us, producing an ever-increasing volume of supply and equipment, up to the very moment the guns are stilled and peace has returned to the world.

Now, as never before, we need to be certain that no shortage will develop in tanks, in airplanes, in naval craft, in trucks, in ammunition and in fuel, or in any other item that we need. Should we be compelled to stay our hand for a single day because of shortage in the arrival of the things we need for the battle, the price will inevitably be paid in soldiers’ lives and in unnecessary anguish in thousands of American families, and in those of our Allies.

The possibility of such a failure on your part does not even enter into my calculations. My faith and belief in the American fighting men is equaled only by my faith and belief in you, who, from your homes, have sent these men to this battlefront to help assure that freedom shall prevail in the world.