Churchill arrives in Moscow, informs Stalin that second front delayed 70 years ago today (1942)


Video: 'Churchill and Stalin in Moscow August 1942'

(Wednesday, August 12, 1942, part of the Eastern Front of World War II) — British Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrived in Moscow today and met with Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin in the Kremlin, informing him that there would be no D-Day in 1942. But he did say that the British and the Americans were preparing for a “very great operation” in 1943. Stalin reportedly looked “very glum.”