Churchill appeals to Roosevelt

8th December 1940: As merchant shipping losses in the Battle of the Atlantic become unsustainable, American support for Britain is becoming ever more vital

Three months of continuous bombing had not brought Britain to her knees. On 8th September 1940, the day after the Luftwaffe’s first major raid on London, Prime Minister Winston Churchill visits the bomb-damaged East End. In a later speech, he would remark ‘What a triumph the life of these battered cities is, over the worst that fire and bomb can do!’

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