In her new book, “The First Lady of World War II,” author Shannon McKenna Schmidt details Eleanor Roosevelt’s daring, top-secret, five-week trip to the South Pacific war zone.
George Rinhart / Corbis via Getty Images fileEighty years ago, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt embarked on a top-secret mission to the Pacific theater, where the United States was battling Japan during World War II. And in going on the 25,000-mile trip — into territory still under enemy attack — Roosevelt pushed the boundaries of the first lady role and cemented her reputation as fearless and unconventional.
Her mission was to rally the allied soldiers and to report back to the president on what was happening on the frontlines. She also traveled as a representative of the American Red Cross and spent hours with U.S. servicemen. Know Your Value: It’s almost unheard of for a first lady to go to an active war zone. Why did the first lady at the time feel it was so important for her to make that trip?Eleanor was a highly experienced traveler, but this trip was further and longer, more arduous and dangerous, and exceeded anything else she had done before. She was always looking for ways to contribute to the war effort and she was uniquely suited for this trip.
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