Compared with Ayres and Leahy, Li Junhao knows better in his heart that Roosevelt's physical condition is not optimistic, if there is no miracle, he will have the last eight months of his life, although he will run successfully and be re-elected president for the fourth time, but in this fourth term, he has only been in office for 39 days!

If Roosevelt's change of attitude was really because of Truman, then eight months later, when Truman took over as president, his own life would be sad! He estimated that he would first lose the title of director of national intelligence, be kicked out of the White House advisory council, then the director of the CIA, and then at most hold on until the end of World War II, then be kicked out of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and even lose his position as commander of the Navy and Army, and be forced to retire......

Of course, this is only the worst-case scenario, but since there is this possibility, he can't let it happen, and he still has to be a five-star general! You must know that a five-star general is for life, and a four-star general is gone after he retires! ——

The next day, in order to verify his conjecture, Li Junhao took the opportunity of going to the White House office to secretly meet with several people who knew him personally, and confirmed that after Truman indeed joined the Roosevelt campaign in June, he reminded Roosevelt many times: Be careful of the expansion of the Stuart family's influence in political and military circles...... It's just that the president doesn't seem to show his approval.

Li Junhao knew that Roosevelt had taken this seriously! It seems that from now on, he needs to work without the full support of the president, which requires that he must not make mistakes!

In fact, this situation was a lose-lose situation for him and Roosevelt - Roosevelt no longer regarded him as a good subordinate and friend in his heart, and even thought about guarding against him and cutting his rights, which would certainly affect his status in the political and military circles, but also lost his surreal opportunity to ask for help at a critical moment!

In the past, Li Junhao thought about finding an opportunity to give the president a system red bottle, but he always felt that it was not yet time, but he didn't expect that when Roosevelt's physical condition began to deteriorate, the relationship between the two had changed!

He noticed the speed at which Roosevelt's light point color changed, and judged that in another three or four months at most, the green should turn gray, and then he would have no way to save the other party! And these three or four months were the last time for him to think about whether to save him in this situation.

Well, since there is still some time, let's see the situation first! ——

In the afternoon, Li Junhao gave Donovan order in his office in the CIA, asking him to immediately start the surveillance and investigation of the Democratic vice presidential candidate Truman, of course, in secret! He didn't even give a reason for this, but the other party immediately accepted the order, which is the benefit of his own people.

After Donovan left, Li Junhao couldn't help but think, if he mobilized his own forces, would this Truman be able to hold out until he was elected vice president? After thinking about it carefully, the answer is: no!

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On Monday, August 14, Li Junhao got busy with business.

When he returned to the United States before, he also brought back the LCC-12 "Stuart" amphibious command ship and sent it to the sea and land base in Virginia Beach for a new upgrade and refit - because when he was commanding the Normandy landing battle, he found that because the communication between the American and British forces was not very compatible, which caused many problems, he had to upgrade the communication command system of the command ship.

In contrast, the LCC-11 "Libeth", which was sent to the Pacific theater of operations, did not suffer from this problem, because the landing operations under its command were carried out by the US military alone.

He called to inquire about the latest progress and learned that the upgrade was going smoothly and was expected to be completed by the end of the month, so he put the matter aside for now.

Then, Li Junhao called Lieutenant General Whitehead, the head of the air support department of the sea and land, and rushed to Charleston, West Virginia, where there was a Bell Aircraft Company that had moved from Texas in early 1943, which was the most advanced helicopter company in the world and was absolutely controlled by his "King" fund—something he could do because of his "foresight" of course.

Nearly a year and a half ago, under his technical support and large investment, Bell Company 15 years ahead of the original history of the mature model UH-1 "Huey" multi-role helicopter mass production, now completely monopolized the US military helicopter market, so far, has provided more than 1,000 UH-1 of various types to all branches of the military, of which 600 are for the sea and land, but these helicopters are now basically resold to the Allied expeditionary force.

This time, he took Whitehead to Bell to put forward suggestions for improvement on some problems found in the Normandy landing battle, and asked it to continue to expand production capacity and meet the urgent requirements of all branches of the US military as much as possible, in order to ship more goods in the last year of World War II!

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On August 15, Lieutenant General Richard Sutherland, chief of staff of the Navy and Army, reported to Li Junhao that the Third and Eighth Armies, which had been sent to Italy to participate in Operation Dragoon, set out from Naples as the first wave of Allied offensive forces, successfully completed their combat mission and successfully landed in southern France.

During the battle, it took only half a day for the Third Army to seize the landing field, which was 90 kilometers wide and 25 kilometers deep on the coast west of Cannes; The Fifth Army captured Toulon and the ports of Marseille in the southwest a little later.

At present, the second wave of the US 7th Army, under the command of Lieutenant General Alexander Patch, began to land at Cannes and Toulon and Marseille, taking over the land and sea forces and attacking in depth with France......

The 7th Army is composed of 7 infantry divisions, 5 armored divisions, 1 motorized division, and 1 airborne division of the United States, Britain, and France, with a total of more than 1,000 tanks and more than 4,700 combat aircraft......

In this battle, although Li Junhao did not participate in the command, Lieutenant General Roy Geiger, the commander of the Third Army, who was appointed as the commander-in-chief of the landing, completed the task brilliantly.

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At the same time, the Second and Fourth Armies of the Navy and Army, which had been dispatched to the Pacific Theater, had already been stationed in the Philippines and were preparing to participate in the campaign to capture the Ryukyu Islands and Bay Islands...... The landing is expected to begin at the end of the month.

Because of Li Junhao's decision-making and deployment that year, the former US Far East Force stationed in the Philippines has been persisting in fighting and successfully preserving this key forward base for the US military, and the former commander of the Far East Force, Wainwright, was promoted to four-star general for this merit, and for this reason, he sent him a telegram of thanks through Lieutenant General Julian Smith, commander of the Second Army of the Navy and Army.

In addition, the troops of the Allied Indo-Burma Theater have basically occupied the entire territory of Thailand, recovered French China, and are preparing to cooperate with the US forces in the Pacific Theater to attack the Malay Peninsula......

(End of chapter)