August 19, 1942 – A Raid On Dieppe – Hopes For A Second Front.
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Tag: World War II
August 12, 1945 – End Of World War 2 – “Any Day – Any Hour- Any Minute”.
-NBC – World News Roundup – News Of The World – August 12, 1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – – WOR-MBS – News and programming from 1:00 pm – 2:15 pm EWT – August 12, 1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – August 12, 1945 – As the minutes
August 8, 1945 – Hiroshima: Vanishing, Almost Without Trace – Extent Of Damage Still Not Known.
– From The Pacific – NBC Radio – August 8, 1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Two days after the first Atomic Bomb attack on Hiroshima, the city was still smoldering. The full extent of the destruction was only starting to become apparent. American reconnaissance planes were able to
June 10, 1942 – Drives Of All Sorts, Including Scrap Drives
NBC News of The World – June 10, 1942 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection War news on most all fronts, this June 10th in 1942. Reports on the air war in the Pacific, with Allied successes being reported, but notes that Japanese fighter planes were out maneuvering our fighter planes,
June 6, 1944 – D-Day – Storming Fortress Europe – Allied Landings In France.
– June 6, 1944 – Mutual Coverage of D-Day landings – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Certainly the date of June 6th isn’t the sole property of 1944. A lot has happened since then. But as time passes and the numbers of people involved or bearing witness to that day
May 20, 1942 – Marshal Timoshenko And The Eastern Front – One Of Those Things That Just Might Be Pulled Off
May 20, 1942; potentially a pivotal day in the history of World War 2. The Russian Army, led by Marshal Semen Timoshenko scored a decisive victory in the battle of Kharkov, which could prove to be a tipping point of the war on the Eastern Front. Speculation that this would
May 12, 1945 – The Morning After – The UN Conference Meets For The First Time.
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May 9, 1945 – V-E Day: The View From Moscow.
– News Feeds From Moscow – May 9, 1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Even after the initial surrender documents had been signed on May 6, Moscow was slow to respond to the news that the War in Europe was in fact, over. But finally, in the early hours of
May 4, 1970 – Kent State – The Day America Killed Its Young
NBC Nightly News – May 4, 1970 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Many have said the events outside the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago started the shift in national opinion of the War in Vietnam. The events at Kent State (and a few days later at Jackson State) 52 years
April 27, 1941 – Swastikas Over The Acropolis – Greece In German Hands.
– April 27, 1941 – NBC News Of The World – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 27, 1941 – A Sunday, 81 years ago. On this day, news of the German Army successfully occupying Athens, not confirmed in London, but confirmed in Berlin that German troops had taken the