The RAF bombing campaign against German cities, and in particular the devastating raid on Hamburg, forced Germany to change its air defense strategies.
Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt met in Québec to confer on war strategy, including a deal that would fold the British atom bomb project, codenamed Tube Alloys, into the American Manhattan Project.
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Fanfare
Opening War Theme
“Le vent dans la plaine”
Composed in 1910 by Claude Debussy. Public domain.
Public domain recording.
Closing War Theme
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