Xx-xx-xx07The Fall Of France-Part2

The acting house broadcasting company brings you the sound of war. The actual sound record of World War II, 2,191 days from the time Hitler's Panzer divisions moved across the Polish borders to the ceremony of the Japanese surrender aboard the United States battleship Nizori in Tokyo Bay.

World War II, the most terrible 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, an era never to be forgotten.

Tonight the fall of France. June 10, 1940, France was in misery. It was just one month since the Nazi-Ponser divisions had crashed the borders of the Low Countries, Belgium, Luxembourg and Holland. Two days later the German-Bermach, spearheaded by 100 divisions, crossed into France.

On March 15, the Dutch Army surrendered, and the following day the French Army broke ranks at Sedan. The Belgian Army surrendered. Now the British and French were being driven into the sea. In one of the most amazing evacuations in the history of man, more than 350,000 Allied soldiers in boats and ships of every description were returned to the safety of the British shores.

But now the French and British would face another blow. It is June 10th, 1940. Confident on land, sea and India, Black Church of the Revolution and of the Legion, Men and women of Italy, of the Empire and of the Kingdom of Albania.

Listen, for an hour, signed by destiny, This ticking on the skies of our country, An hour of irrequevable decisions, A decoration of war has been given to the ambassadors. The President of the United States has been a part of the crisis of France and England.