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Friday, July 19, 2013

World War II in Pictures- British Prime Minister Winston Churchill launches the "V for Victory" Campaign on 19 July 1941.

Today in History - July 19, 1941: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill launches the "V for Victory" Campaign. He urges all European nations resisting Nazi occupation to use the letter V in the media. The letter stood not only for "victory," but as a symbol of the "unconquerable will of the occupied territories and a portent of the fate awaiting Nazi tyranny."

He urges all European nations resisting Nazi occupation to use the letter V in the media. The letter stood not only for "victory," but as a symbol of the "unconquerable will of the occupied territories and a portent of the fate awaiting Nazi tyranny."

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