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22 June 1941

Operation Barbarossa

Germany invaded the Soviet Union on a 1,800-mile front. Churchill was on the air the same night pledging support to a government he had spent twenty years opposing.

13 recordings · 5 broadcasters · 8 days

Who carried it

BBC Home Service7American Networks — Pool Feeds & Stations3BBC European Services1Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft1Mutual Broadcasting System1

16 June 1941

BBC Home Service

Winston Churchill Broadcast To America

16 Jun 1941 · 3 min

Broadcast 1941-06-16. BBC Home Service. Transferred from the Internet Archive's WWII audio archive (public domain).

22 June 1941

American Networks — Pool Feeds & Stations

PCPT Russian Radio reports on German Invasion

22 Jun 1941 · 0 min

Broadcast 1941-06-22. American Networks — Pool Feeds & Stations. Transferred from the Internet Archive's WWII audio archive (public domain).

BBC Home Service

Winston Churchill Germany Invades Russia

22 Jun 1941 · 18 min

Broadcast 1941-06-22. BBC Home Service. Transferred from the Internet Archive's WWII audio archive (public domain).

27 June 1941

BBC Home Service

Douglas Ritchie AKA Colonel Britton On The V Campaign

27 Jun 1941 · 0 min

Broadcast 1941-06-27. BBC Home Service. Transferred from the Internet Archive's WWII audio archive (public domain).

28 June 1941

BBC European Services

Erkennungsmelodie

28 Jun 1941 · 0 min

Broadcast 1941-06-28. BBC European Services. Transferred from the Internet Archive's WWII audio archive (public domain).

3 July 1941

American Networks — Pool Feeds & Stations

PCPT Josef Stalin Addresses Nation

3 Jul 1941 · 0 min

Broadcast 1941-07-03. American Networks — Pool Feeds & Stations. Transferred from the Internet Archive's WWII audio archive (public domain).

American Networks — Pool Feeds & Stations

PCPT Josef Stalin On Peroration

3 Jul 1941 · 0 min

Broadcast 1941-07-03. American Networks — Pool Feeds & Stations. Transferred from the Internet Archive's WWII audio archive (public domain).

9 July 1941

Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft

PG Wodehouse Second Broadcast clip

9 Jul 1941 · 0 min

Broadcast 1941-07-09. Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft. Transferred from the Internet Archive's WWII audio archive (public domain).

13 July 1941

BBC Home Service

Anglo Soviet Agreement

13 Jul 1941 · 1 min

Broadcast 1941-07-13. BBC Home Service. Transferred from the Internet Archive's WWII audio archive (public domain).

14 July 1941

BBC Home Service

Fighter Pilot Richard Hillary Shot Down

14 Jul 1941 · 12 min

Broadcast 1941-07-14. BBC Home Service. Transferred from the Internet Archive's WWII audio archive (public domain).

BBC Home Service

General DeGaulle Urges America To Join The Allies

14 Jul 1941 · 4 min

Broadcast 1941-07-14. BBC Home Service. Transferred from the Internet Archive's WWII audio archive (public domain).

Mutual Broadcasting System

News And Views By John B Hughes

14 Jul 1941 · 0 min

Broadcast 1941-07-14. Mutual Broadcasting System. Transferred from the Internet Archive's WWII audio archive (public domain).

BBC Home Service

Winston Churchill Do Your Worst Well Do Our Best

14 Jul 1941 · 7 min

Broadcast 1941-07-14. BBC Home Service. Transferred from the Internet Archive's WWII audio archive (public domain).