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February 11, 1941 – War Of Nerves – War Of Words – The View From Vichy

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”12582″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”February 11, 1941 – News Of The World – NBC Blue Network – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] News for this February 11th in 1941 was primarily about the war in Europe; a war the U.S. was comfortably-but-getting-less-so not directly involved in. We were still

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December 21, 1939 – Christmas In Wartime – Festive In Short Supply – The Last Of Merry For The Duration.

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”6144″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”December 21, 1939 – Guy Savage News – Mutual – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] Despite news earlier in the week of the sinking of the German Battleship Admiral Graf Spee, Germany was celebrating Christmas, this week in 1939, with a shipment of some 1

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Berlin - 1943

December 3, 1943 – Orchestrated Hell – Raid Over Berlin

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”11362″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”December 3, 1943 – CBS – The World Today – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”]   In what has been considered one of the milestones in broadcast journalism, Edward R. Murrow reported his eyewitness account of a bombing raid over Berlin, this day in 1943.

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November 9, 1938 – Neville Chamberlain And The Munich Crisis – Staving Off The Inevitable

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”10997″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”November 9, 1939 – Neville Chamberlain Address – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] Lest we all forget events in history leading up to other events in history, the Munich Crisis of 1938 served as the Preview Of Coming Attractions in what would eventually become World

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