This is Elliot Anderson with the Columbia Broadcast System; We interrupt our regularly scheduled program of dance music from the Waldorf Astoria ballroom with Benny Goodman and his orchestra to bring you just breaking news from out correspondent in London Edward R Murrow....
*HISS*POP**SQUEEEELLLL*HISS*(sounds of air raid sirens wailing in the background sporadically interrupted by the near by concussions of multiple explosions)*POP*
This is London on this 28th week of 1940; I speak to you tonight from a city on the edge of the abyss.
Last night the Luftwaffe dropped paratroopers along with their bombs, surrounding London on three sides while destroying the road and rail routes on the fourth.
This morning in the pre-dawn mist the long slumbering Kriegsmarine struck with a fury! Waves of aircraft from the German carrier Zeppelin attacked the berthed ships of the mighty Royal navy. Hood, Rodney, Repulse, Warspite, Barham mighty dreadnoughts all, lay ablaze on the bottom of the Thames along with 5 or more cruisers.
The sounds you hear in the background Mr and Mrs America are the cries of a city in its' death throws. The German battleships Bismarck, Scharnhorst, Gneisenau along with the Pocket Battleship Deutchland and three heavy cruisers lie comfortably in the middle of the Thames shelling at will the city of London.
I must end my report here as my producer has just been told by one of the few survivors of the household cavalry that the German panzers and marines have entered the city and the Royal army will only be able to hold the airport long enough for the royal family to escape.
London has fallen.
We are trapped along with the population of London, all of us holding our collective breaths for what is to happen next....
And the answer to that one kind readers is a MASSIVE aerial counter attack by the Royal Airforce that bombed the 14 sized London down to a population of 1. While not touching a single one of the German units entrenched IN London.