[Evening Standard] US President Joe Biden has addressed American service personnel and their families at the RAF Mildenhall in Suffolk ahead of the G7 summit in Cornwall beginning on Friday.Here is his speech in full:
Hello Mildenhall.
Colonel, thank you for that introduction and your service leading this team in such a difficult time.
Skipping down to a nice part; for the whole thing, you gotta hit the link.
There's an awful lot of history at this base, a proud history for the British people – the bravery and heroism of the Royal Air Force pilots fighting to defend their nation.
I'm sure everyone here knows the history, but just six hours after Britain and France declared war on Germany in 1939, three Wellington bombers took off from Mildenhall and bombed Nazi battleships.
And over the course of World War Two, out of this base, RAF bombers dropped nearly 28,000 tons of bombs on Nazi Germany, flying more than 8,000 sorties. This base has been a significant source of British air power. A proud, proud history of a proud nation.
I skipped down thru a long speech, but it seems pretty solid, if folksy. A lot of facts and figures, not from memory, for sure! I wonder if he was still on D.C. time? I wonder what it was like, live.
| That would have been the written text of the speech that he planned to give, not what he actually said. A very quick search did not reveal any videos of the thing, including on the White House website, which makes me wonder. |