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MS (L to R) William Loren Batt, vice chairman of the War Production Board; James V. Forrestal, under secretary of the navy; Elmer Davis, director of Office of War Information; Adm. William D. Leahy, chief of staff; and Robert P. Patterson, under secretary of war, sitting at small table looking at documents; all turn toward camera / MCU Leahy speaking into microphone SOT "The picture is grim today but I can remember a time when it was grim in 1918. That spring we were sure the Germans would break through. Faint-hearted people said they could never be stopped. But they were stopped. This war will probably be long. It will be the toughest, hardest, most merciless war we have ever fought. It calls for the united power of every American in uniform and out of uniform, on the firing line and on the production line. We have mighty enemies but we can beat them. We did it once. We will do it again." / MCU Forrestal at table speaking into microphone SOT "The army and navy are in the forefront of this war but they can be effective only if back of them is the organized will and the industrial might of the nation. At Midway we asked for strength and courage to meet tasks beyond human limitations. They were freely given. We are now asking that you men in the mines of Michigan and Minnesota, the forests of the Northwest, the smelters of Arizona, New Mexico, and Nevada, all of you Americans everywhere, both labor and management will give us our critically needed basic materials; draw upon your reserves of strength for the same extra effort. We ask you to meet the flaming spirit of those pilots both Army and Navy who dove through a curtain of death into the Japanese fleet off Midway and sent it reeling back to its bases." / Note: exact month/day not known