Editing Francis Marlin Blackthorne (section)

===Military & War Years (1927–1945)===
*Correspondence became more serious, including letters to global leaders, thinkers, and military figures.
*Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933, 1937, 1941, 1944) – A polite form letter in 1937. Received a personal note of encouragement in 1944. 
*Winston Churchill (1940, 1944) – No direct response, but received a signed pamphlet from Churchill’s office in 1944. 
*Charles de Gaulle (1943) – A short but grateful response. (1955) A long letter about WW2. 
*Erwin Rommel (1938) – Several letters and responses till after 1942.  Often about Military matters and Freemasonry.  See the Rommel incident.
*Adolf Hitler (1935, 1939) – No response.  Letter found in Hitler's Third Reich records. 
*Joseph Stalin (1939, 1942) – No response. Letters found in Soviet archive.  (There is evidence in the KGB files investigated in the early 1990s that the KGB attempted to Flip Blackthorne to make him a spy in 1969, 1972, 1981.  Three agents tasked with the operations to turn the General all disappeared and no bodies were ever found.) 
*Douglas MacArthur (1943, 1944, 1951) – A signed headshot in 1943, but a formal and distant reply in 1951. 
*George S. Patton (1944) – A brief but personal letter praising his service.