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broadcasting company brings you the sound of war. The actual sound record of World War II. 2,191 days from the time Hitler's Panzer divisions moved across the Polish borders to the ceremony of the Japanese surrender aboard the United States battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay.

World War II. The most terrible period of death and destruction in the long history of man. World War II, a drama preserve for all time through the medium of radio, an era never to be forgotten.

Tonight, climb Mount Nittaka, translation, attack Pearl Harbor according to plan. That was the voice of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the summer of 1940. President was being broken.

He would be the first man to ever run for the presidency for a third term. One year in one month after defeating Wendell Wilkie, the president would speak before an extraordinary session of Congress. Senators and representatives are half the distinguished honor of presenting the president of the United States.

Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn has just introduced the president. It is 1229 p.m. Monday, December 8, 1941. Another president is about to be broken. For the first time in the nine years that he has been in office, cheers and applause will ring out from both sides of the historic chamber.

Democrats and Republicans alike. There is good reason. This is the day following the Japanese air attack at the naval base Navy men affectionately called Pearl. This is the story of December 7, 1941, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

For 1941, Europe is at war. Four months earlier in June, Germany attacks Russia and the following month, Great Britain and Russia sign a mutual aid pact. But there are rumblings also in the Far East.