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Edward R. Murrow from a London rooftop during the Blitz - 21 September 1940 | K D | YouTubeToText
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The content describes a tense and dangerous night in London during wartime, characterized by distant air raid sirens, anti-aircraft fire, and the ever-present threat of unexploded bombs, juxtaposed with a resilient spirit of defiance and patriotism.
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I'm standing on a rooftop looking out
over London at the moment everything is
quiet for reasons of national as well as
personal security I am unable to tell
you the exact location from which I'm
speaking off to my left far away in the
distance I can see just that pink red
angry snap of anti-aircraft burst
against the steel blue sky but the guns
are so far away that it's impossible to
hear them from this location about five
minutes ago
the guns in the immediate vicinity were
working in I can look across just at a
building not far away and see something
that looks like a splash of white paint
down the side and I know from daylight
observation that about a quarter of that
building has disappeared that hit by a
bomb the other night streets fan out in
all directions from here and down on one
Street I can see a single red light and
just faintly the outline of a sign
standing in the middle of the street and
again I know what that sign says because
I saw it this afternoon it says danger
unexploded bomb off to my left still I
can see just that red snap of the
anti-aircraft fire
I was up here earlier this afternoon and
looking out over these house tops
looking all the way to the dome of st.
Paul's I saw many flags flying from
stars no one ordered these people to put
out the flag they simply feel like
flying a Union Jack above their roots no
one told them to do it and no flag up
there was flight I can see one or two of
them just stirring very faintly in the
breeze now you may be able to hear the
sound of guns off in the distance very
faintly like someone kicking it tougher
now they're silent for searchlights
reach up disappear in the light of a 3/4
moon I should say at the moment there
are probably three aircraft in the
general vicinity of London because one
can tell by the movement of the lights
and the flash of the anti-aircraft guns
but at the moment in the central area
everything is quiet more searchlights
spring up over on my right I think
probably in a minute we should let the
sound of guns in the immediate vicinity
the lights are swinging over in this
general direction now you'll hear two
again moving in still a considerable
distance away moving still just a little
closer there you heard to the
searchlights are stretching out now in
this general direction I can hear just a
faint whisper of an aircraft high
overhead again those guns are
considerable distance away you'll hear
them just vaguely in the background
straight in front of them now you hear
two sounds in just a moment where they
are that was explosion overhead not the
guns themselves are you think in a few
minutes there may be a bit of shrapnel
around here coming in moving a little
closer all the while the plane is still
very high and it's quite clear that he's
earlier this evening we can hear engage
mate again those were explosions
overhead it earlier this evening we
heard a number of bombs go sliding and
slithering across to fall several blocks away
just overhead now the burst of the
anti-aircraft fire still the nearby guns
are not working and the searchlights now
are feeling almost directly overhead now
you'll hear two bursts lunare in a moment
are they on that hard
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