that Letter V Again--Belgrade 1941

[Dave Monroe]

During World War II, radio transmissions by the BBC
started with the first four tones of Beethoven's Fifth
Symphony, denoting "V" for "Victory".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morse_code

During World War II its suggestion of Morse Code
became the powerful symbol of 'V For Victory.'  GI's
who didn't know Schumann from shinola knew this was
Beethoven and relished the irony of a German's music
galvanizing the Allied effort to defeat the horrific
murder machine that country had become.

http://www.classicalnotes.net/classics/fifth.html

--- Dave Berton <dberton at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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).

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