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Podcast: Breaking Walls: The Podcast on the History of American Network Radio Broadcasting
Episode: BW - EP152—015: D-Day's 80th Anniversary—King George VI's Famous Speech And More Invasion Updates
Description: At 3PM The British King George VI issued a D-Day speech. The Transcription is below.
Four years ago, our Nation and Empire stood alone against an overwhelming enemy, with our backs to the wall. Tested as never before in our history, in God's providence we survived that test; the spirit of the people, resolute, dedicated, burned like a bright flame, lit surely from those unseen fires which nothing can quench.
Now once more a supreme test has to be faced. This time, the challenge is not to fight to survive, but to fight to win the final victory for the...