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Xx-xx-xx10The Battle Of Britain

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Company bring you thousand one-hundred-apponies surrender aboard the United States battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay. A period of death and destruction in the long history of man. World War II. A drama preserve for all time through the medium of radio.

And era never to be forgotten. I speak to you for the first time and prime minister in a solemn hour. Tonight for the life of our... The battle of Britain. Of our empire. Of our allies.

at the bubble of the course of freedom. A tremendous battle is raging in France and flanders. The Germans, by a remarkable combination of air bombing and heavily armoured tanks, have broken through the French defenses north of the Maginot Line, and strong columns of their armoured vehicles are ravaging the open country, which for the first day or two, but without defenders.

We have differed unquarled in the past, but now one bond unites the door to wage war until victory is won, and never to surrender ourselves to servitude and shame, whatever the cost and the agony may be.

With this, it's one of the most awe-stiting periods in the long history of France and Britain. It is also beyond out the most sublime, behind them, behind us, behind the armies and peace of Britain and France, gather a group of shattered states and bludgeon races, the treks, the Poles, the Norwegians, the Danes, the Dutch, the Belgians,

Up and all of whom the long night of barbarism will descend unbroken even by a star of hope. Unless we conquer, dance conquer we must, dance conquer we shall. It is July 10th 1940. The war in Europe has reached an unbelievable stage.

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