Welcome to World War Two chronicles a weekly tribute to Americas fighting men and women
in commemoration of the Second World War. These programs are narrated by Ed Hrlihy
and are based on the news broadcasts of the war period from the recorded sound
collection of the National Archives in Washington, d C. The US Second Armored
Division stands at attention on Berlin's acclaimed Autobahn as President Truman's party rolls in.
Earlier Truman was greeted by cheering crowds after the US cruiser Augusta docked at the
Belgian port of Antwerp. The week of July twenty fourth, nineteen forty five
marks the start of the Big Three Conference. President Truman joins Joseph Stalin,
Winston Churchill and other dignitaries in pasta. The Big Three meetings are held in
Kaiserville, Helm's former palace. President Truman is select it as chairman of the
conference. Here, the fate of Germany and the end of Japanese aggression will
be settled under the flag that flew over the White House when we declared war
on the axis. The President states, our aims, Let's not forget that
we are fighting for peace and for the welfare of mankind. We're not fighting
for conquests. There's not one piece of territory, our, one thing of
a monetary nature that we want out of this war. We want peace and
prosperity for the world as a whole. Over the old German barracks in Berlin,
the stars and stripes fly in victory. This historic banner has flown over
much captured territory Casablanca, Algiers Rome in Berlin. Let us pray it will
not be long before it flies over Tokyo. If that flag was flying,
you would have had plenty of wind behind it. In the China Sea off
Okinawa, units of the American fleet are struck by the worst typhoons so far
in the Pacific War. The bow of the heavy cruisier Pittsburgh was sheared off.
The bow of the Pittsburgh is salvage by a Navy tug, and they
radioed to Guam we have sighted a suburb of Pittsburgh and taken it in tow,
with more than a hundred feet of her bow missing. The Pittsburgh,
thanks to watertight compartments, got home to have her wounds healed before she fights
again. I'm in Hurlei. He joined me next time for World War Two
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