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Patton's speech to the Third Army was a series of speeches given by General George S. Patton to troops of the United States Third Army in 1944, before the Allied invasion of France. The speeches were intended to motivate the inexperienced Third Army for impending combat.
The speech is well remembered for Churchill's use of the phrase "the few" when referring to Allied aircrew defending the United Kingdom; since then, they have been referred to as "The Few". [14] Nearly 3,000 aircrew from the United Kingdom, the Commonwealth, and other Allied countries took part in the Battle of Britain, a third of which were ...
1940: Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat, a phrase used by U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt in 1897 but popularized by Winston Churchill in the first of three inspirational radio addresses during the opening months of World War II. 1940: We Shall Fight on the Beaches, from the second radio talk by Winston Churchill, promising to never surrender.
"The bomber will always get through" was a phrase used by Stanley Baldwin in a 1932 speech "A Fear for the Future" given to the British Parliament. His speech stated that contemporary bomber aircraft had the performance necessary to conduct a strategic bombing campaign that would destroy a country's cities and there was little that could be ...
For this speech, Hitler wore a field-grey military uniform, conforming with the Generalissimo rank he was assuming, rather than the brown Nazi Party uniform that he had worn for earlier speeches. The 1 September 1939 Reichstag speech is a speech made by Adolf Hitler at an Extraordinary Session of the German Reichstag on the day of the German ...
Biden spoke for 20 minutes under sunny skies at the U.S Military Academy's commencement ceremony, with 1,036 graduating cadets seated before him in dress grey uniforms on the football field at ...
Hitler's prophecy speech of 30 January 1939. From his first speech in 1919 in Munich until the last speech in February 1945, Adolf Hitler, dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945, gave a total of 1525 speeches. In 1932, for the campaign of presidential and two federal elections that year he gave the most speeches, that is 241. Not all have ...
Most people enter military service “with the fundamental sense that they are good people and that they are doing this for good purposes, on the side of freedom and country and God,” said Dr. Wayne Jonas, a military physician for 24 years and president and CEO of the Samueli Institute, a non-profit health research organization. “But things ...