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Places Where Winston Churchill Said We Would Fight the Nazis

Where did Winston Churchill say we would fight the Nazis in his famous "we shall fight them on the...." speech?
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Last updated: November 26, 2021
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We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France,
we shall fight on the seas and oceans
we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air,
we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be,
we shall fight on the beaches,
we shall fight on the landing grounds
we shall fight in the fields
and in the streets,
we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender
26 Comments
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Level 65
Jul 12, 2018
Nice Quiz
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Level 61
Aug 10, 2021
Yeah, good quiz idea.
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Level 60
Aug 13, 2021
Ref the title of this quiz: there's no apostrophe in 'Nazis'. You never make a plural by sticking an apostrophe in.
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Level 51
Nov 22, 2021
For some reason I have always thought this list included Italy. The more you know.
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Level 90
Nov 26, 2021
I missed seas and oceans, air, beaches, landing grounds, fields, streets and hills. I only got France. :(:(
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Level 66
Feb 28, 2023
Really? France was one of the couple I missed out on. Beaches was the first one that sprung to mind but that might be because of its use in media more commonly.
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Level 91
Nov 26, 2021
We shall also defend our island.
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Level 41
Nov 28, 2021
Helps if you are an Iron Maiden fan..Aces High.
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Level 85
Nov 28, 2021
Beat me to it...
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Level 60
Nov 28, 2021
Gives me chill every time
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Level 24
Nov 28, 2021
True legend this man
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Level 68
Nov 28, 2021
My family lived in London during the war. I once asked my mother "Weren't you terrified when the Nazis reached the beaches at Dunkirk - just a few miles across the Channel?"

"No", she said "Churchill told us it would be all right and we knew it would be."

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Level 63
Nov 28, 2021
Damn
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Level 68
Nov 28, 2021
Not sure what your response means, Pandora?
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Level 35
Nov 29, 2021
I think Pandora just means that is an inspiring thing for your mother to say.
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Level 63
Nov 30, 2021
Yeah, that's what I meant
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Level 68
Dec 1, 2021
Thank you, that's lovely.
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Level 81
Nov 29, 2021
Not on 4chan?
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Level 64
Nov 30, 2021
Iconic. Want to say a very special f*ck you to those vandals who wanted to tear down this hero's statue :)
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Level 73
Jan 25, 2022
It's a matter of perspective, I suppose. Churchill was a monstrous man, which was what was needed during WW2. If you could ask the ANZACs he landed at Gallipoli in WW1, I don't reckon there'd be too many who thought he was a hero, but it was partly his ability to send men into fights they had little chance of winning, knowing thousands would be slaughtered, that won WW2. He also wasn't as popular with the public as people seem to think. He was voted out at the first election after WW2, and even when he was re-elected in 1950, it was with fewer votes than the Labour party. We humans have a need for heroes, and we have a tendency to whitewash our heroes' flaws in order to 'purify' them. There's a statue to Bomber Harris, for example, a man indisputably guilty of terrible war crimes, under Churchill's direction. Is it not more mature to recognise the importance of these figures, while also acknowledging their faults?
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Level 84
Mar 5, 2022
He was voted out because the people supported Attlee, a visionary who was almost as integral to the war effort as Churchill and one who likely cease further hostilities. Britain was graced by 2 of our greatest leaders when we needed them most.
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Level 45
Jun 20, 2024
Beg to disagree, Attlee was a communist and one of the worst PMs to have ever befallen our once great country. Responsible for mass theft of private property, the dissolution of our Empire and 'temporarily' introducing the NHS, another great scourge that happened to us. But to each their own ;)
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Level 84
Jun 27, 2024
Attlee was a patriot, statesman, reformer and a good man.

The empire was lost to the freedom of those who lived under it. Rightly so.

The nation needed to heal after a titanic struggle and Attlee's government took practical steps achieve this.

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Level 59
May 1, 2025
Could you not see how mad they might be, given the fact he was a racist and a eugenicist. Like any person he had a bad side (awful eugenics bs) and a good side (fighting Nazis).
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Level 57
Nov 30, 2021
I only got beaches from ERB.
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Level 67
Apr 13, 2022
I shouldn't feel proud, but nevertheless I was able to get all of these without looking, and I do.