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Music by Hollywood Symphony Orchestra

Chariots Of Fire

SIR Winston Churchill

THE HONOR GALLERY

--Table of Contents--
 The Life and Times of Sir Winston Churchill

The Cenotaph Memorial

The Mull of Kintyre

The Evacuation of Dunkirk WWII

WINSTON CHURCHILL


Winston Churchill attended the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst. 

Graduated December 1894 and Commissioned with the Queen's Own Hussars.

A spectacular assembly of Britain's bulwark. Original Photo 1914 The Royal Navy Fleet off Spithead, Portsmouth of over 200 warships.


Notice the barrage Defense Balloons overhead and a Royal Air Force Squadron of Bi-Planes entering on a fly over as seen on the top right hand corner.

1916 Winston Churchill WWI 

Seated center commanding the 6th Battalion of the Royal Scots Fusiliers


 "When you are going through Hell, keep going." --Winston Churchill

    Winston Churchill with his wife Clementine





    British Commonwealth Forces.


    King George V 

    On the deck of the Battleship H.M.S. Dreadnought during the inspection of the Royal Navy Fleet.






    King George V Letter 

    to the American Expeditionary Forces 

    World War I





    Britain's Day

    7th of December 1918



    Winston Churchill with his wife Lady Clementine



    Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, aboard the H.M.S. King George V

     

    "Rule Britannia."


     "Britannia Rules The Waves"



    Winston Churchill with crew members of the H.M.S. Ajax



    Churchill pictured here during Naval Review

    THE Gathering Storm World War II


    Prime Minister during the Battle of Britain from 1940 to 1945, at war with Nazi Germany. 

    His speeches and radio broadcasts  helped to inspire the British people during their darkest hour. 



    1940 to 1941 

    When the British Empire stood almost alone against Adolf Hitler's war machine, 

    among his speeches to Parliament and the people were: 


    "You ask what is our aim." 

    "The answer is one word--Victory." 

    "Victory at all costs." 

    "Victory in spite of all terror."  

    "Victory however long and hard the road may be."  

    "For without victory there is no survival." 

    "We shall persevere."


    Royal Air Force Spitfires


    On the 15th of August 1940, the Battle of Britain had reached a critical point,  

    during air raids- the Blitz and night bombings. 

     

    Sir Winston gave a tribute to pilots of the Royal Air Force Fighter Command.

    "Never in the field of human conflict have so many owed so much to so few." 


    "We shall go on 'til the end." 


    "We shall fight them on the land, on the sea and in the air." 


    "All we ask is give us the tools and we will finish the job." 


    "Never, never, never give up." 

    "We shall defend our island nation whatever the cost may be." 


    "We shall fight them on the beaches, in the fields, in the streets." 


    "We will fight them from our rooftops and in our gardens." 


    "We shall never surrender."



    On December 7, 1941, the Empire of Japan, unprovoked, bombed Pearl Harbor, in a surprise attack.



    The United States signed a Declaration of War on the Empire of Japan, joining Britain and the Allied Forces in the war effort on all fronts.


    President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Speech to Congress and the American People--December the 7th, 1941--


    "A date which will live in infamy."


    On December 8, 1941, the British government, in unity, declared war on Japan.  WWII was at full charge.



    Normandy Invasion


      "Our Finest Hour"


      In February, 1945, after years of war and bloodshed on all continents, the Yalta Conference was called by the following world leaders:


      Prime Minister Churchill, Great Britain


      President Franklin D. Roosevelt, USA


      Joseph Stalin, USSR.


      The three leaders agreed to demand Germany's immediate surrender.


      On the 8th of May, 1945, in Berlin, Germany officially surrendered ending the war in Europe.



      VICTORY IN EUROPE DAY




      Winston Churchill, the lion's roar, had led Britain to victory. 


      In conclusion--in 1963, Churchill, the statesman, was made honorary citizen of the USA.



      The Day The World Mourned


      Sir Winston Churchill State Funeral

      at ST. Paul's Cathedral

      attended by dignitaries and heads of states

      from around the World


      Churchill died on the 24th of January, 1965 at the age of 90.



      The Commonwealth and The Nation in grateful remembrance



      Churchill's Funeral Procession with Big Ben in the background



      Churchill's Funeral Procession passes through Trafalgar Square. 

      After his state funeral at St. Paul's Cathedral, with full military honors,  

      he was buried in the family plot at Bladon, Oxfordshire.   



      Story by Ian O. Robertson

      The Cenotaph


      THE BRITISH WAR MEMORIAL

      THE CENOTAPH

      WHITEHALL, LONDON

      Honoring the Fallen Heroes


      Land of Hope and Glory,

      Mother of the Free,

      How shall we extol thee

      Who are born of thee?


      Wider still and wider

      shall thy bounds be met.


      God who made thee mighty, 

      make thee mightier yet.


      God who made thee mighty,

      make thee mightier yet.

      THE MULL OF KINTYRE SCOTLAND

      The Mull of Kintyre Scotland


      "Oh mist rolling in from the sea

      My desire is always to be here.


      Far have I traveled and much have I seen

      Darkest of mountains and valleys of green


      Sun painted deserts with sunsets on fire

      As they carry me back to the Mull of Kintyre.


      Wind swept through the heather like deer in the glen

      Carry me back to the days I knew when.


      Nights when we sang like a heavenly choir

      of the life and the times of the Mull of Kintyre.


      With smiles in the sunshine and tears in the rain

      still take me back where my memories remain. 


      Flickering embers go higher and higher

      as they carry me back to the Mull of Kintyre."


      by Sir Paul McCartney

      Onward and Upward

      "TOP SECRET"


      During wartime, the troops were never told where they were headed until he day of departure.


      "We don't know where we're going 'til we're there.

      There's lots of blinking' rumors in the air.

      No one seem's to know,

      We're singing as we go,

      Because we don't know where we're going

      'til we're there.

      Operation Dynamo: The Evacuation of Dunkirk, WWII, May 1940





      By Order of Admiralty House London-


      The Royal Navy evacuated 350.000 British, French and Allied Troops who were trapped on the beaches by heavy Nazi German bombardment.


      We support the Association of Dunkirk Little Ships 

      that assisted The Royal Navy in the Evacuation of Dunkirk from the shallow beaches.


      Churchill referred to the Little Ships as a Miracle of Deliverance, 

      Worthy of Honorable Remembrance.


      The Association holds an Annual Regatta at Henley on Thames to commemorate

       these Courageous Heroes.



      "HOLD FAST"


      Story by Ian Robertson


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