that Letter V Again--Belgrade 1941

Dave Berton dberton at gmail.com
Tue Aug 1 16:07:36 CDT 2006


> letter from german soldier: "our home radio station, from the Belgrade
> Propaganda Company, supports the spirit of the capital letter "V". ..each
> news rreport begins with Beethoven's 5th as a special 'V' signal. it sounds
> beautiful and powerful...

Beethoven's 5th could have been used as a special 'V' signal because
the first 4 bombastic notes work out to a 'V' in Morse code
(dot-dot-dot-dash).

db



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