LIVING
HISTORY
MULTI-MEDIA
ARCHIVES
HISTORIC
SOUND CLIPS 1939-1945
The following pages aim to bring some of our wartime
history to life using a range of multi-media approaches and tools that are
available to internet. You will be able to hear the actual voices of
veterans as they recollect their participation in signaificant
perios of history, as well as to see or hear clips
from wartime archives.
To date there is extremely limited on-line multi-media information as
is reflected here. Watch this space as more information becomes readily
available.
Online Archive and Research Databases
Online Living History Page
Online
Living History Sound Clips
Online
Living History Movie Clips
Sound Archives and audio clips
Prelude to war, 1930s
Adolf Hitler, leader of Nazi Germany, On the Sudetenland
Crisis
Hitler's
address to the Reichstag
Ribbentrop , Nazi foreign minister, Address to
the German people on England and France
On the future
of aviation
Amelia Earhart,
American aviator, On the future of women in flying
War
declared 1939
BBC
Broadcast .The invasion of Poland mobilisation of Great
Britain France Mobilisation of the Navy, Army
and air Force.
Declaration
of War by the Prime Minister , the Rt. Hon. Neville Chamberlain, at
11.15am BBC Announcement by Alvar Lidell
You
can imagine what a bitter blow it is to me that my long struggle to win
peace has failed..."
The
King's Speech to the Nation
Britain goes to War with history details and Declaration of War
Neville Chamberlain's Declaration
of War
Prime
Minister Neville Chamberlain: A recording of his Declaration of War against
Germany or 15.2 Kbps 278K
.RA file)
BBC
Nine O'Clock News immediately after Chamberlain's
announcement rare recording of the nine
o'clock evening news, read by announcer Bruce Belfrage
BBC
News - announcer BruceBelfrage describes the
atmosphere in Whitehall
Lord Halifax, Foreign Minister, on
British committment to war [1.3MB]
Air raid
warnings procedures . BBC Announcements
Cinemas,
theatres and places of entertainment to be closed. BBC Announcements
Schools
closed for at least a week. Keep off the streets as much as possible.Carry your gas masks with you always. BBC Announcements
President
Roosevelt proclaims neutrality FD Roosevelt: "Let no man or woman
thoughtlessly or falsely talk of America
Battle of France , Dunkirk and Battle of Britain 1940
Winston Churchill: A
recording of his first radio address as prime minister , c. 1940. (8.0
Kbps 200K .RA file or 15.2 Kbps 382K .RA
file )
ister, On the
Battle of Franc e
Inaugurates
the Battle of Britain
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beaches.........."
Winston
Churchill -- "...this was their finest hour" (148K .wav).
Churchill
Stands Tall, June 4, 1940
News broadcast 15 September 1940
Battle of
Britain fighter pilots recollect
CHURCHILL
SPEECHES
CHURCHILL
SOCIETY: A sound file will automatically start playing back an extract of
one of Churchill's war time speeches http://www.churchill-society-london.org.uk:801/ramgen/UknHeros.ra
Princesses Elizabeth
and Margaret Rose
Attack
on Pearl Harbor and America Declares War 1941
Winston
Churchill speaking in America about the Nazi campaign in the Eastern front
against the Soviet Union
President Franklin
D. Roosevelt: A recording of the "Declaration of War on Japan",
1941. ( 8.0 Kbps 328K .RA file , or 15.2 Kbps 625K .RA
fil e )
U.S. On
the Lend-Lease act
Normandy and the D-Day invasion of Europe 1944
Broadcasts
D-Day invasion order
George
Hick's Live Report on D-Day
Franklin D.
Roosevelt, thirty -second U.S. France
Addresses the
United States from France
elt,
thirty-second U.S. president, Returns from the Allied conference at Yalta
BRITISH
PACIFIC FLEET AND VJ-Day 1945
See World War II
Multimedia database - on Pacific war speeches including of Churchill
Click
here for the audio clip. His collection is in the Second
World War Experience Centre
President Harry S. Truman:
A recording-Dropping the A-bomb on Japan, c. 1945. (8.0 Kbp s 25K .RA file
or 15.2 Kbps 50K
.R A file )
Douglas MacArthur , American general, Receives the Japanese s urrender
VJ-day
announcement and celebrations
Geoffrey
Lawrence, president of the Nuremburg war crimes tribunal, Pronounces
sentences against Nazi war criminals
Created: 3-04-2001 , Last Modified 3-06-2005
