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voice 1Music
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voice 118 hours out,
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voice 1destination unknown.
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voice 1A military secret.
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voice 1The largest overseas expedition ever guarded by the Blue Ensign of the American Navy.
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voice 2Southwards from Britain, some 3000 miles away,
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voice 2an even greater convoy, twice the size,
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voice 2moves in its appointed place across the seas,
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voice 2shielded by the White Ensign of the British Navy,
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voice 2destroyers in close support,
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voice 2cruisers on the flanks and beyond the horizon.
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voice 2The battleships
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voice 2from the decks of aircraft carriers
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voice 2and from the shore planes of the Fleet Air Arm and Coastal Command,
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voice 2patrol the skies and search the seas,
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voice 2advance outposts of an elaborate protective screen.
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voice 1East nor E the American convoy.
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voice 2Southwest by West, the British,
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voice 2Nothing like these two armadas had disturbed the waters since the world was made.
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voice 2This is a combined operation,
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voice 2an operation that began some four months earlier in Washington,
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voice 2DC
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voice 2President of the United States welcomed the Prime Minister of Great Britain.
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voice 2The gravity of the moment had brought them together.
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voice 2The lights burned all night that night in the White House,
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voice 2where the two leaders met with their combined chiefs of Staffs.
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voice 2For this was the picture taking all too definite form in the minds of the civil,
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voice 2military and naval leaders now locked in secret Conference 2 Axis spearheads were headed east.
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voice 2In the north, Von Bach was hewing his way through the Ukraine to the Caucasus.
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voice 2In the South, Rommel was driving toward the Egyptian border.
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voice 2These two spearheads were intended to meet in Iran and head eastward towards India.
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voice 2In the audience, Japan had occupied the coast of China,
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voice 2the East Indies, Malaya and Burma in preparation for the drive westward through India.
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voice 2If these two enemy spearheads were allowed to meet,
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voice 2Russia and China, except for their remote Arctic ports,
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voice 2would be completely isolated.
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voice 2Japanese raw materials and German production would be combined the peoples of Europe,
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voice 2Asia and Africa. 7/8 of the world's population would be enslaved.
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voice 1By mourning a decision both bold and revolutionary.
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voice 1Bold because in this, our darkest hour,
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voice 1we dared to take the offensive Revolutionary because that offensive was conceived,
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voice 1planned and executed by the peoples of two nations.
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voice 1The time and the place had been agreed upon.
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voice 1The
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voice 1code name for the combined operation was Acrobat.
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voice 1The two great elements were time and secrecy.
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voice 1125 days in which to plan and launch an offensive from bases 3000 miles apart,
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voice 1an operation involving hundreds of thousands of American and British soldiers and sailors,
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voice 1millions of American and British working men and women only by whose combined efforts could the plan become a reality,
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voice 1but from whom the plan itself must be kept secret.
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voice 1A few score men, No. New in its entirety the plan for this greatest of combined operations in London and Washington,
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voice 2More.
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voice 1British and American officers were placed at adjoining desks to work through the days and nights of grinding toil that lay ahead,
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voice 1and gradually, in the enforced daily intimacy,
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voice 1men grew to know and respect each other.
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voice 1Thus was born the relationship out of which an Allied army came into being.
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voice 1To them came hourly reports on the vast undertaking of forging the striking weapon.
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voice 1It was a race against time.
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voice 1In the United States, men and supplies poured eastward toward the Atlantic seaboard.
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voice 2In Britain, also by road and rail,
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voice 2an army was on the move
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voice 2by day and night. The dockers were records were broken in tonnage.
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voice 2Put a board in one ship
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voice 2for every soldier, British and American.
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voice 210 tons of equipment.
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voice 2On both sides of the Atlantic, the effort was tremendous.
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voice 2Guns, trucks,
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voice 2aircraft, petrol,
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voice 2water, food, barbed wire,
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voice 2locomotive.
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voice 2Of ammunition alone, we shipped 520 different kinds.
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voice 2And every ship sailed on time and in absolute secrecy.
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voice 2None.