Winston Churchill: Britain's Most Powerful Weapon

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Winston Churchill was known as possibly being Britain's most powerful weapon because of his proclamation stating that "we shall fight on the beaches, on the landing grounds, and in the fields and streets. They will never surrender." Churchill had become one of the greatest speakers of all time. He used his gifts as an intelligent and strong speaker to rally the people of Great Britain behind the efforts to defeat Germany.
Summer of 1940 Germanys Air Force bombed Great Britain targeting British airfields and their aircraft factories. In The fall of 1940 their focus became in the cities to diminish British morale. With all of this destruction and lives lost, the British did not falter. The RAF began to fight back hard.
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