Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill17 May 1940
Orders urgent preparations against possible invasion of Britain.
Great Britain · Warfare / World War, 2nd. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
Orders urgent preparations against possible invasion of Britain.
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