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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DJU9" data-source="post: 10913308" data-attributes="member: 44472">3. Winston Churchill and the Tommy Gun <img src="http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/winston-churchill-with-gun-390x400.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> On June 4, 1940, Winston Churchill made a historic speech. “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!” His words were an inspiration to British troops  and in the summer of 1940, Churchill scheduled a collection of public  tours across the UK. During one of these tours on July 31, 1940, he was  photographed trying out an American 1928 Tommy gun or Thompson SMG. The picture was taken at the defense fortifications near Hartlepool in  Northern England used by the British media in 1940. It quickly spread  across the world and became an important picture of the Second World  War. Nazi propaganda minister Goebbels extensively used the photograph.  During the Battle of Britain, the Germans dropped leaflets with the  picture and the English text “WANTED, for incitement to MURDER.” The  Nazi propaganda was attempting to portray Churchill as a gangster. Interesting Fact It is not the same gun as in the picture, but the World War II London  Underground Headquarters, now a museum, has a similar Tommy gun on  display that Churchill planned to use if the Nazis came to London. If  they had successfully invaded he is quoted as planning “to light a good  cigar, take a sip or two of his favorite brandy, and go out in the  streets and take as many German troops with it as he could, perhaps  fighting alongside the Queen and the royal family when the end came.”</blockquote>

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