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1942 Radio News

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1942
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131

News from 1942.

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I usually share these via torrent but I don't think all these files are available on archive.org so here's a 1942 news file dump.

Any typo or error is mine.

Episodes, in broadcast order page 1 of 2

  1. Denver Darling Cowards Over Pearl Harbor

    · 2:48

  2. AFRS Yarns For Yanks Extra, Extra

    · 14 min

  3. AFRS At Ease 095 I Cover the Waterfront

    · 15 min

  4. Congress Radio India ID

    · 2:00

  5. Dinah Shore He Wears a Pair of Silver Wings

    · 3:20

  6. Don Baker There'll Be A Little Smokio In Tokio

    · 1:07

  7. KFWB Robert Arden News Commentary Address to Police Officers

    · 15 min

  8. NHK Station DEBUNK Another Sign-On

    · 0:36

  9. RRGO Paul Revere AKA Douglas Chandler

    · 0:13

  10. RRGO Robert Best Against U.S. Action

    · 4:13

  11. BBC Rt Hon Anthony Eden Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs News Postscript

    · 3:57

  12. NBC News Roundup John MacVane

    · 14 min

  13. MBS Walter Winchell Promotion for Navy Relief Society

    · 29 min

  14. KNX The Rita Murray Show (04) Wartime Conservation Knitting For Soldiers

    · No. 4 · 15 min

  15. CBS Red Cross Program Ted Collins, Kate Smith

    · 30 min

  16. NBC The Hollywood March of Dimes of the Air

    · 1 h 00 min

  17. NBCB News of the World

    · 15 min

  18. NBC News Roundup Sidney Albright

    · 12 min

  19. BBC Sir Stafford Cripps

    · 6:54

  20. CBS News Of The World

    · 15 min

  21. CBS News of the World A.M. Edition

    · 15 min

  22. CAN This is War (01) - Archibald MacLeish, Robert Montgomery, Written & Dir by Corwin

    · No. 1 · 29 min

  23. BBC Winston Churchill Reviews Atlantic Charter Summit

    · 24 min

  24. NBC News Roundup John MacVane

    · 14 min

  25. NHK Japanese Victory Over Singapore

    · 0:32

  26. NBC News Roundup John MacVane

    · 29 min

  27. Battle Of Los Angeles News Report

    · 1:01

  28. CBS News of the World A.M. Edition

    · 12 min

  29. CAN This is War Your Navy

    · 30 min

  30. NBC News Roundup John MacVane

    · 14 min

  31. CAN This is War Your Army

    · 29 min

  32. CAN This is War You're On Your Own

    · 28 min

  33. NBC Story Behind The Headlines New Zealand - A Partner For Defense

    · 14 min

  34. Denver Darling The Devil And Mr. Hitler

    · 3:12

  35. CAN This Is War (08) Your Air Force - Jimmy Stewart

    · No. 8 · 30 min

  36. CBS Mobil Gas News Service

    · 15 min

  37. NHK Station DEBUNK Sign-On

    · 0:22

  38. Alvino Rey and His Orchestra V-Disc The Army Air Corps

    · 2:47

  39. CAN This Is War (12) To the Young

    · No. 12 · 29 min

  40. Last Message From Corregidor Irving Strobing

    · 8:56

  41. KZRH Gen Wainwright Broadcasts Surrender Of Corregidor

    · 1:13

  42. NBCB Walter Winchell Corregidor

    · 2:17

  43. BBC Nightingales & Bombers

    · 6:40

  44. CBS News of the World A.M. Edition

    · 14 min

  45. CBS News of the World A.M. Edition

    · 13 min

  46. RDN Allocution De Philippe Henriot à La Radio Diffusin Nationale

    · 0:47

  47. UK Newsreels - Singapore's Defences Before Defeat

    · 0:29

  48. CBS News of the World A.M. Edition

    · 14 min

  49. CBS World News Roundup

    · 14 min

  50. CBS News of the World A.M. Edition

    · 13 min

  51. MBS Capt William Graves On The Battle Of Midway

    · 1:52

  52. CBS News of the World A.M. Edition

    · 14 min

  53. CBS News of the World A.M. Edition

    · 13 min

  54. BBC Britain Speaks

    · 10 min

  55. CBS News of the World A.M. Edition

    · 13 min

  56. NBC News of the World

    · 15 min

  57. BBC Giles Fairplay Last Days of Singapore

    · 0:53

  58. RDN Pierre Laval Déclare - Je Souhaite La Victoire De L'Allemagne

    · 0:54

  59. CBS News of the World A.M. Edition

    · 14 min

  60. CBS News of the World A.M. Edition partial

    · 8:42

  61. WHAS 20th Anniversary Show

    · 27 min

  62. MBS All Star Game NYC Blackout Bottom Of The 9th

    · 6:19

  63. CBS News of the World A.M. Edition partial

    · 2:02

  64. CBS Columbia Wartime Bureau They Burned The Books

    · 28 min

  65. Pathfinders of the Sky (Univ of Texas) Lt. William J. Burford

    · 7:55

  66. NBCR This Nation At War Victory Ships

    · 19 min

  67. MBS Fulton Lewis And The News

    · 14 min

  68. CBS News of the World A.M. Edition partial

    · 2:40

  69. BBC Freddy Grisewood Saving Fuel

    · 0:33

  70. BBC Canadian Soldier Dieppe Eyewitness

    · 3:14

  71. CBC Carnage On The Beaches Of Dieppe Robert Bowman

    · 15 min

  72. CBC Tributes To Bravery

    · 14 min

  73. CBS Our Secret Weapon The Truth

    · 15 min

  74. CBS News of the World A.M. Edition partial

    · 1:19

  75. KMBC Senator Truman Interview

    · 5:01

  76. CBC Mackenzie King Three Years of War

    · 6:20

  77. CBC Nazi Eyes on Canada 01

    · 29 min

  78. BBC Midway Eyewitness U.S. Captain Elliot Buckmaster

    · 3:14

  79. CBS Glenn Miller Chesterfield Moonlight Serenade Glenn Miller Joins The Army

    · 14 min

  80. AFRS Spike Jones Der Fuehrer's Face

    · 2:44

  81. RRG Adolf Hitler Rede Über Stalingrad

    · 0:56

  82. Kay Kyser Praise The Lord And Pass The Ammunition

    · 2:31

  83. SYN To Fly With A Fighting Navy

    · 14 min

  84. CBC Nazi Eyes on Canada 02

    · 30 min

  85. CBS News of the World A.M. Edition (incomplete)

    · 0:44

  86. CBS News of the World A.M. Edition (incomplete)

    · 0:21

  87. CBC Nazi Eyes on Canada 03

    · 30 min

  88. CBC Nazi Eyes on Canada 04

    · 29 min

  89. NBC Story Behind The Headlines What's Happening On Guadalcanal?

    · 15 min

  90. BBC General Montgomery To 8th Army Before El Alamein

    · 2:06

  91. CBC Covering The Battle In El Alamein Matthew Halton

    · 5:00

  92. CBC Nazi Eyes on Canada Alameda

    · 29 min

  93. CBC Nazi Eyes on Canada 05

    · 43 min

  94. KMBC B-25 & Doolittle

    · 6:41

  95. BBC Godfrey Talbot Watches Night Tank Battle For El Alamein

    · 1:53

  96. BBC Opening Barrage At El Alamein

    · 0:20

  97. BBC Bruce Belfrage Excellent News

    · 0:42

  98. BBC Bruce Belfrage On Victory At El Alamein

    · 0:42

  99. CBS Edward R. Murrow On North Africa

    · 1:41

  100. FDR Appeals To French To Resist The Nazis

    · 1:56

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