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Welcome to World War Two chronicles a
weekly tribute to Americas fighting men and women

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in commemoration of the Second World War. These programs are narrated by Ed Hrlihy

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and are based on the news broadcasts
of the war period from the recorded sound

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collection of the National Archives in Washington, d C. The US Second Armored

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Division stands at attention on Berlin's acclaimed
Autobahn as President Truman's party rolls in.

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Earlier Truman was greeted by cheering crowds
after the US cruiser Augusta docked at the

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Belgian port of Antwerp. The week
of July twenty fourth, nineteen forty five

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marks the start of the Big Three
Conference. President Truman joins Joseph Stalin,

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Winston Churchill and other dignitaries in pasta. The Big Three meetings are held in

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Kaiserville, Helm's former palace. President
Truman is select it as chairman of the

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conference. Here, the fate of
Germany and the end of Japanese aggression will

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be settled under the flag that flew
over the White House when we declared war

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on the axis. The President states, our aims, Let's not forget that

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we are fighting for peace and for
the welfare of mankind. We're not fighting

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for conquests. There's not one piece
of territory, our, one thing of

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a monetary nature that we want out
of this war. We want peace and

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prosperity for the world as a whole. Over the old German barracks in Berlin,

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the stars and stripes fly in victory. This historic banner has flown over

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much captured territory Casablanca, Algiers Rome
in Berlin. Let us pray it will

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not be long before it flies over
Tokyo. If that flag was flying,

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you would have had plenty of wind
behind it. In the China Sea off

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Okinawa, units of the American fleet
are struck by the worst typhoons so far

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in the Pacific War. The bow
of the heavy cruisier Pittsburgh was sheared off.

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The bow of the Pittsburgh is salvage
by a Navy tug, and they

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radioed to Guam we have sighted a
suburb of Pittsburgh and taken it in tow,

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with more than a hundred feet of
her bow missing. The Pittsburgh,

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thanks to watertight compartments, got home
to have her wounds healed before she fights

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again. I'm in Hurlei. He
joined me next time for World War Two

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