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Almanac: "V for Victory" sign

On July 19, 1941, a BBC announcer read a message from Prime Minister Winston Churchill urging the people of Britain to use two extended fingers to form a "V for Victory" sign, in support of the underground resistance in occupied Europe. Jane Pauley reports.
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