Xx-xx-xx17The Most Dramatic Voices And Sounds Of The War

2,191 days from the time Hitler's concert divisions moved across the Polish borders to the ceremony of the Japanese surrender aboard the United States battleship Missouri 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 preserved for all time through the medium of radio, an era never to be forgotten. The most dramatic voices and sounds of the war, clicked in the history of man to have reserved for all time the sound record of its terrible tragic moments.

It is an unequaled record, though the course of the war is easily heard in the voices and sounds of the men and women and children who lived and died. And in their voices and words are sadness, hope and eventual joy that was the transition from frustration and defeat to complete victory.

then is the war as we know it. With the people, many of whom have long since gone, who lived its terrible moment. The war began. A former First Lord of the Admiralty was called back into service.

Ships of the Royal Navy wagged their signal flags and blinked their blinkers with a message that brought joy to the men of the fleet. The message, Winnie, is back. Winston Churchill was back as First Lord of the Admiralty.

now as Germany invaded the Low Countries, this May 10, 1940, and Nazi Panzers crashed across the borders of France in what would be a death blow. Winnie was back again. Winston Churchill had become Prime Minister of Great Britain.

I speak to you for the first time as Prime Minister in a solemn hour for the life of our country of our empire, of our allies, at above all of the course of freedom. A tremendous battle is raging in France and Flanders, a couple of combinations of air bombing and choking through the French defenses north of the Maginot Line and strong columns