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(Reports on Britain Under the Bombs)

Night after night, in the hot summer and early fall of 1940, a deep,

under the waves of German

an American voice with a slight steady voice came over the Atlantic Ocean

from England to America, telling of England's battle for survival

bombers

. This strong and steady voice,

accent of North Carolina, belonged to Edward R. Murrow, head of the European staff of the Columbia Broadcasting System.

"This is London," said Murrow, while the bombs fell and flames spread

His voice had a tone of sorrow for the

no matter what it had to endure. It

Nazi bombs on the streets of the city. suffering of that ancient city, and a tone of confidence, too -- a feeling of

belief that London would be there, could not be destroyed.

The heavy raids

began in the middle of August, and

started to fall along England's Channel

Coast. The German bombers cast dark shadows over the white cliffs of Dover, and England's Home Guard prepared to fight on the beaches, on the cliffs, and in the hills, until the last Englishman died or the invaders were driven off

. Air Marshal Goering's bomber pilots were sure of their ultimate triumph over England. Hitler and Goering believed that when London became a burned city like Warsaw and Rotterdam

, England would surrender.

They had the English Channel as a barrier against But the English were more fortunate than the Poles in Warsaw and the Dutch

in Rotterdam.

Nazis in the sky.

The hardships of London really started in the first week of September,

German bombers

Marshal Goering when Hitler was at last convinced that the English did not intend to give in.

On September 7, 1940, nearly four hundred

boasted, hammered the city with bombs in broad daylight

.

delivered its bombs right into the enemy's heart."

Fires burned, houses fell, gas pipes burst, and dark smoke rose from

the streets. Men, women, and children felt the effect of the bombs. Radar sirens wailed

,

another, ambulances rushed from one place of agony to

and fire fighters faced the flames hour after hour. the Nazi ground forces, and they had the Royal Air Force(RAF) to battle the "This is the historic hour when our air force for the first time