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The Pacific Story · December 17, 1944 · 29 min · 3,945 words
The transcript of “Nan King C”, an episode of The Pacific Story first broadcast December 17, 1944. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). The Pacific Story plays The Pacific Story free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.
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The National Broadcasting Company and its affiliated stations present the Pacific story. In a mounting period of world conflict, events in the Pacific are taking on ever greater importance. Here is the story of the Pacific and the millions of people who live around this greatest sea.
The drama of the people whose destiny is at stake in the Pacific War. Here as another public service is the tale of the war in the Pacific and its meaning to us and to the generations to come.
I am King. Timber, 1937.
I am riding this atop North Star Hill. This may be the last time I shall ever see this beautiful city. I look down the planet stretched below me there, a city that is known such splendor and terro's few cities have ever known.
Now it is to be destroyed. None King is condemned. This is a warning to all foreigners who leave at once before the final phase of the bombing. Admiral Hasigawa made the announcement yesterday. From where I sit I can see the destruction left by the 16 bombings of the past week.
The heavy bombings at the start at noon today. It is incredible. Then King was 600 years old at the time of Christ. In my years here as a missionary I had come to love it and all of its lore.
The hills around the city are shaped like the back of a dragon. Chuhung Woh, the one who started as a beggar and rose to be the first to the main dynasty in 1368. Chuhung Woh said that when he saw the grandeur of these hills over there.
I will build my capital on the back of the dragon, and it will last forever. The mings built the city on the back of the dragon, and they built the walls around the city. Those walls that are still down there.
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