Eleanor Roosevelt visits soldiers in hospital, Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu, 1943

ID: 335 ~ Source: "[Eleanor Roosevelt in Santo, 1943.]" Image. From National Archives: Franklin D. Roosevelt Library Public Domain Photographs, 1882 - 1962. https://catalog.archives.gov/id/197261 (accessed December 19, 2017). ~ Date: September 18, 1943
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Eleanor Roosevelt visits injured soldiers in a hospital on Espiritu Santo, the largest island in Vanuatu. Vanuatu is an archipelago country located in the South Pacific.

This file appears in: Entering a War Zone

By Eleanor Roosevelt
"Guadalcanal looks very different from when the Marines landed. By holding on through the desperate first months, till we could get supplies and the Army came in and relieved them, they assured us of ultimate domination in the Pacific. Today…