FDR decision to release graphic pictures of war to stiffen the home front for a long, hard war - directive on the "Release of Pictures" sent May 13, 1943
despite Russian victories on the Eastern Front, "there is no Joshua in our midst. We cannot count on great walls crumbling and falling down when the trumpets blow and the people shout."
instead, "grim reality" of long, bloody battles like Tunisia, Guadalcanal
need to strengthen homefront for total war - total sacrifice - no easy victory
