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– March 3, 1942 – News Of The World – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 3, 1942 – Fighting in the Far-East was taking a bad turn for the allies. With the Netherlands giving up Batavia and slowly pulling…
– February 28, 1942 – News Of The World – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 28, 1942 – While the news was coming in over the threatened Japanese invasion Java in the Pacific, a bulletin had flashed just towards…
February 24-25, 1942 – In a series of events, later to be known a The Great Los Angeles Air Raid, or The Battle of Los Angeles, residents from as far north as Santa Barbara and as far sound as Laguna…
– February 22, 1942 – News Of The World – NBC – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 22, 1942. With eyes on the Pacific, this Sunday morning in 1942. News from The Dutch East Indies of fighting in and…
– February 21, 1942 – News Of The World – Special Report By Martin Agronsky – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 21, 1942. In the midst of news regarding the worsening situation in the Pacific, there also came word…
February 17, 1942 – Radio Tokyo – news in English – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 17, 1942 – News for this day in 1942 had to do with the fall of Singapore and its occupation by Japanese forces.…
– February 15, 1942 – News Of The World – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 15, 1942 – a day of unexpected audacity on the battlefronts of the world. Starting with reports from the Far East of rumored armistice…
– February 14, 1942 – News Of The World – NBC – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 14, 1942 – News from Palembang was brief and without explanation. Over 100 Japanese planes and assorted fighters swarmed over Palembang in…
– News Of The World – NBC Red Network – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 11, 1942 – news for this day was ominous, sketchy and strange. The situation in Singapore was described in London as growing worse, but…
– News Of The World – February 10, 1942 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Ominous day, this February 10th in 1942. Japanese troops were closing in on the British island of Singapore and it was only a matter of…