september 1st in the invasion of poland, the beginning of world war ii and they were sent over by chamberland to secure the friendship between the nations to make sure that the united states would continue to be allies with the british. this was a very important visit and i think lends itself so some of the earliest involvement of the united states into the war effort at that time. [applause] winston churchill was here four different times but on june 20th of 1942 was probably the most important visit. we know that earlier in the day that he and fdr, harry hopkins are down in fdr study in springwood and they are talking about two baloys, british atomic program, the code name for that. the researching was taking place in london which was rather difficult at the time with constant bam barding of the city so they weren't making the progress that they were hoping to and word was coming down that the germans were close to developing an atomic weapon. churchill was asking fdr to bring the program and scientists over to the united states and fdr agrees to that and within two months time, two balloys

september 1st in the invasion of poland, the beginning of world war ii and they were sent over by chamberland to secure the friendship between the nations to make sure that the united states would continue to be allies with the british. this was a very important visit and i think lends itself so some of the earliest involvement of the united states into the war effort at that time. [applause] winston churchill was here four different times but on june 20th of 1942 was probably the most important visit. we know that earlier in the day that he and fdr, harry hopkins are down in fdr study in springwood and they are talking about two baloys, british atomic program, the code name for that. the researching was taking place in london which was rather difficult at the time with constant bam barding of the city so they weren't making the progress that they were hoping to and word was coming down that the germans were close to developing an atomic weapon. churchill was asking fdr to bring the program and scientists over to the united states and fdr agrees to that and within two months time, two balloys