Xx-xx-xx09The Day They Attacked Pearl

Broadcasting Company brings you the sound of war. The actual sound record of World War II, in 2,191 days from the time Hitler's Ponzar 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. War II, a drama preserve for all time through the medium of radio, and era never to be forgotten.

Tonight, the day they attack Pearl. President Roosevelt's announcement of Japanese air attacks on United States Pacific bases staggered London according to a dispatch just received. And London now awaits Prime Minister Churchill's promise to declare war on Japan within the hour.

Honolulu. A naval engagement is in progress off Honolulu with at least one black enemy aircraft carrier in action against Pearl Harbor defenses. At 2.22 p.m. Sunday December 7, 1941, radio stations throughout the nation were interrupted.

This was the first news bulletin to tell the world that the Japanese naval and air force had attacked the United States naval base of Pearl Harbor. American territory had been bombed by an enemy. The United States would soon be at war.

September 1940. German bombers are by day a night leveling London. Great Britain fights along. Through the attacks the Royal Air Force takes to the skies. They are the last bulwark of the fence against the German invasion of the home Athens. On September 16th 1940 many in the United States feel that the United States will

soon be at war. In Washington, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt picks the first draft number. Dr. Dykstra, ladies and gentlemen, members of your government are gathered here in this federal building in Washington to witness the drawing of numbers as provided for in the Selective Service Act of 1940. This is a most It is accompanied by no pom-pah, no blowing of bugles, or beating of drums, and there should