Winston Churchill addressing joint session of Congress, 1943
In May, 1943, Churchill was in Washington for the TRIDENT Conference, during which the Americans and British agreed to launch the cross-Channel attack in a year's time. He also made a second speech to Congress. Churchill reminded them that "the main burden of the war on land" was still being borne by the Soviet Army on the Eastern Front. He added that the final triumph, in spite of the recent victory in Tunisia, would come only after battles as difficult and costly as those that had followed the pivotal Battle of Gettysburg in the American Civil War. |
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Object Details:
Copyprint. Connally Collection, Prints
and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (196) Repro.
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LC-USZ62-90452
[Digital
ID# cph 3b36803]
Related Theme:
Visits to America
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