WHEN BRITAIN’S RADIO LISTENERS HEARD "THE WHOLE FLEET'S LIT UP.”—This gorgeous scene with Britain’s concentrated naval might blazing with lights from stem to stern and sending cascades of fire into the night sky in honour of His Majesty’s Coronation review, is the scene which inspired the now historic radio bon mot "The Fleet’s Lit Up." So overcome was the retired naval officer selected by the British Broadcasting Company to detail the scene for English radio listeners that all he could think of to say was the phrase as quoted. The magnificent display of mass lighting and pyrotechnics is realised from the picture.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 180, 1 July 1937, Page 6
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102WHEN BRITAIN’S RADIO LISTENERS HEARD "THE WHOLE FLEET'S LIT UP.”—This gorgeous scene with Britain’s concentrated naval might blazing with lights from stem to stern and sending cascades of fire into the night sky in honour of His Majesty’s Coronation review, is the scene which inspired the now historic radio bon mot "The Fleet’s Lit Up." So overcome was the retired naval officer selected by the British Broadcasting Company to detail the scene for English radio listeners that all he could think of to say was the phrase as quoted. The magnificent display of mass lighting and pyrotechnics is realised from the picture. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 180, 1 July 1937, Page 6
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