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[00:05.51]Night after night, in the hot summer and early fall of 1940,
[00:13.68]a deep, steady voice came over the Atlantic Ocean from England to America
[00:22.32]telling of England's battle for survival under the waves of German bombers
[00:30.06]This strong and steady voice,
[00:36.72]an American voice with a slight accent of North Carolina,
[00:43.16]belonged to Edward R. Murrow,
[00:48.10]head of the European staff of the Columbia Broadcasting System.
[00:54.65]"This is London," said Murrow,
[01:00.23]while the bombs fell and flames spread on the streets of the city.
[01:07.07]His voice had a tone of sorrow
[01:11.32]for the suffering of that ancient city,and a tone of confidence,too
[01:19.27]a feeling of belief that London would be there,
[01:24.85]no matter what it had to endure. It could not be destroyed
[01:32.81]The heavy raids began in the middle of August,
[01:39.07]and Nazi bombs started to fall along England's Channel Coast
[01:46.20]The German bombers cast dark shadows over the white cliffs of Dover
[01:53.65]and England's Home Guard prepared to fight on the beaches
[02:00.02]on the cliffs, and in the hills,
[02:04.67]until the last Englishman died or the invaders were driven off.
[02:12.01]Air Marshal Goering's bomber pilots
[02:17.56]were sure of their ultimate triumph over England.
[02:23.53]Hitler and Goering believed that when London became a burned city
[02:31.20]like Warsaw and Rotterdam, England would surrender.
[02:37.86]But the English were more fortunate than the Poles in Warsaw
[02:45.20]and the Dutch in Rotterdam.
[02:49.16]They had the English Channel as a barrier against the Nazi ground forces
[02:57.23]and they had the Royal Air Force(RAF) to battle the Nazis in the sky
[03:06.37]The hardships of London really started in the first week of September
[03:14.54]when Hitler was at last convinced
[03:19.08]that the English did not intend to give in
[03:24.44]On September 7, 1940,
[03:29.59]nearly four hundred German bombers
[03:34.85]hammered the city with bombs in broad daylight
[03:40.68]Marshal Goering boasted,
[03:44.75]"This is the historic hour
[03:48.82]when our air force for the first time
[03:53.75]delivered its bombs right into the enemy's heart
[03:59.11]Fires burned,houses fell,gas pipes burst,and dark smoke rose from the streets
[04:09.66]Men, women, and children felt the effect of the bombs.
[04:16.32]Radar sirens wailed, ambulances rushed from one place of agony to another
[04:25.36]and fire fighters faced the flames hour after hour.
[04:31.62]It seemed impossible for any city
[04:36.26]to take so much punishment and continue to endure
[04:42.53]It seemed impossible for people of the city to do their daily jobs
[04:51.38]to work and eat and sleep and carry on the business of life
[04:59.16]with the crash of bombs all around them
[05:04.20]and planes spitting fire in the skies above
[05:10.57]But the city endured. Trains brought commuters in from the suburbs
[05:20.44]Buses bumped along the streets.
[05:24.90]The fires were brought under control.
[05:29.54]Bottles of dairy milk arrived in door ways,
[05:35.63]and women took them in, as though the war were a thousand miles away
[05:42.97]Newspapers appeared and people bought them,
[05:48.23]hurrying to work and reading reports of the battle raging over London
[05:55.90]And Edward R. Murrow went on the air, saying in his deep, steady voice,
[06:03.78]"This is London."
[06:07.45]He spoke as though nothing could ever keep him from saying those words
[06:14.51]He did not speak them with any attempt to sound heroic.
[06:20.45]He simply voiced the quiet truth of the city's existence
[06:27.79]Murrow knew that Britain's fate
[06:32.33]depended upon the resolution of the people
[06:37.30]in the shops and streets, the men in the pubs,
[06:43.34]the housewives, those watching for fire on the roofs,
[06:49.50]the people who had a thousand difficult and painful things to do
[06:56.16]Much depended upon the handful of pilots