British Troops entering The Maginot Line – The Formidable faillure. News for this day featured a special report from Arthur Mann of Mutual Broadcasting, reporting from The Maginot Line in France. The Maginot Line, named after the French Minister of War André Maginot, was a line of concrete fortifications, obstacles and weapon installations
November 24, 1942 – News Of The World – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – November 24, 1942 – News for this day was about progress (or lack of it) in the War. Fighting was erupting throughout the desert areas of Middle-East and in Northern Africa, with Allied forces advancing through
This day in war in 1942 was hopeful for the Allies. With news from the Pacific Theater of victory in the Solomon Islands sea battle and progress with fighting in New Guinea and progress in the Guadalcanal campaign. The United States navy dealt the Japanese fleet the most disastrous defeat
October 24, 1939 – Report from Ankara – BBC World Service – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – October 24, 1939 – With a war a little over a month old, and news traveling slowly, word about the British-French-Turkish Treaty signing had surfaced days after the actual event. It was a
One of the greatest military races in the history of the Pacific War was being run in Southern China and the wilds of the China-Burma frontier. On one side are the Japanese armies in the HengyangKweilin-Canton area. They are trying to consolidate the gains in their drive on Kweilin in
News for this September 29, 1944 had much to do with the Allied armies push east, inching across France. American 1st army troops smashed forward Echterbosch forest in a new attack above Aachen today as battles of increasing intensity flared all along the front between Holland and France. Other allied
– CBS Radio News reports on Munich Crisis – September 24, 1938 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection News for this day in 1938 was about the crisis over German demands for land belonging to Czechoslovakia. The Munich crisis over the Sudetenland, as it was known, was slowly turning into
– BBC News – Overseas Service – Sept. 19,1939 – Seventeen days into the start of the War in Europe, news of the day was filled with reports of attacks, advances, retreats, threats, addresses, assertions, denials, and casualties. Since the German-Russian alliance, Poland was being assaulted on two fronts. Hitler
– Fight For Freedom Committee – Oct. 10, 1941 – As a counter-movement to the much publicized, isolationist and German-leaning America First Committee, the Fight For Freedom Committee was organized to end America’s neutrality in the War and to involve us militarily in the fighting then-currently going on. Viewing America’s
– News for September 18, 1939 – NBC Blue Network – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Today was not a good day to be in Poland, or Europe for that matter. September 18, 1939 was about the swift demise of Poland and the abrupt and baffling partnership struck between Russia
