US Presidency
1945

Provision was made for daily exchange of information between the armies under the command of General Eisenhower on the western front, and those armies under the command of the Soviet marshals on that long eastern front, and also with our armies in Italy, without the necessity of going through the Chiefs of Staff in Washington or London as in the past. You have seen one result of this exchange of information in the recent bombings by American and English aircraft of points which are directly related to the Russian advance on Berlin. From now on, American and British heavy bombers will be used, in the day-by-day tactics of the war, and we have begun to realize, I think, that there is all the difference in the world between tactics on the one side, and strategy on the other, day-by-day tactics of the war in direct support of the Soviet armies, as well as in the support of our own on the western front.