What happens
This is a November 1942 news broadcast from the CBS World News Today series, with John Daly anchoring from New York. It reports the American invasion force landing at Oran and Algiers on the North African coast and at other points on the Atlantic coast. Officers named in the War Department communique include Lieutenant General Eisenhower as commander-in-chief, and Brigadier General Jimmy Doolittle and Major General George S. Patton. Correspondents in Cairo, Moscow, London, Washington and Honolulu relay reports on the reaction in Egypt, Russia and Britain, the Vichy French response, and fighting in the Pacific. A military analysis closes the broadcast.
Wartime broadcast from New York, with reports from Cairo, Moscow, London, Washington and Honolulu, covering the North African campaign in November 1942.
Characters: John Daly, Winston Burdett, Larry LeSueur, Lee White, Webley Edwards, George Fielding Elliott, Lieutenant General Eisenhower, Brigadier General Jimmy Doolittle
Listen for: The War Department communique on the American landings at Oran and Algiers, and the Vichy French reports of the fighting there.
Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.