Date (happened)
1 September 1939
"on September the 1st, 1939", told in Unidentified lecture (passages of 2200) (nid 4430)
Told / reported
between 17 April 1972 and 22 April 1972
(probable)
delivery claim d0 on lecture nid 4430: bound 1972-04-17..1972-04-22, probable, derived from an Apollo 16 moon-launch reference
On 1 September 1939, driving back from Montreal after two weeks on the Canadian border, he heard on the car radio that England had declared war on Germany — exactly as his father had predicted.