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Day by Day Britain's Home Defences Grow

The War Illustrated, Volume 3, No. 45, Page 19, July 12, 1940.

In his broadcast on Sunday, June 30th, Mr. Chamberlain said that the enemy might try to invade us at any moment. "If he does try," he added, "we will fight him in the air and on the sea; we will fight him on the beaches with every weapon we have. He may manage here and there to make a break through. If he does we will fight him on every road, in every village, and in every house, until he or we are utterly destroyed. If he is driven to evacuate as we had to evacuate from France, there will be no friendly fleet waiting for him; there will be nothing waiting for him off the beaches of England but death and disaster."

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