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On December 8, 1941, the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor, an inspirational statement was made by Don McNeill during the NBC radio broadcast of Don McNeill’s Breakfast Club. His statement ended: ...and also don’t forget, sometimes you can strike a giant who is dozing momentarily, when the giant is awakened, look out.
Original 1939 poster. Keep Calm and Carry On was a motivational poster produced by the Government of the United Kingdom in 1939 in preparation for World War II.The poster was intended to raise the morale of the British public, threatened with widely predicted mass air attacks on major cities.
World War II poster containing the famous lines by Winston Churchill – all members of Bomber command "Never was so much owed by so many to so few" [a] was a wartime speech delivered to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom by British prime minister Winston Churchill on 20 August 1940. [1]
Reading and sharing inspirational Veterans Day quotes from important figures throughout history is one way to commemorate the day. Whether you have family members, friends, or neighbors who served ...
Author Terry Brighton called it "the greatest motivational speech of the war and perhaps of all time, exceeding (in its morale boosting effect if not as literature) the words Shakespeare gave King Henry V at Agincourt". [14] Alan Axelrod contended it was the most famous of his many memorable quotes. [20]
Barbara Quevâtre said memories of her work in naval intelligence during WW2 stay with her 80 years on [BBC] A Guernsey woman serving as a Wren in World War Two unknowingly intercepted messages ...
The speech served as an important source of inspiration to Norwegians fighting the German occupation of Norway and the rest of Europe as well as for the resistance fighters of other small countries during World War II. In the speech the President said: If there is anyone who still wonders why this war is being fought, let him look to Norway. If ...
During World War II, the "We Can Do It!" poster was not connected to the 1942 song "Rosie the Riveter", nor to the widely seen Norman Rockwell painting called Rosie the Riveter that appeared on the cover of the Memorial Day issue of the Saturday Evening Post, May 29, 1943. The Westinghouse poster was not associated with any of the women ...