What happens
CBS World News Today reports on the American invasion of French North Africa in November 1942. Correspondents and analysts in New York, Washington, Cairo, London, Moscow and Honolulu give the news as it reached them. Landings are reported at Oran, Algiers and Morocco's Atlantic coast, with Vichy radio and German broadcasts quoted as sources. Reports from Cairo describe the retreat of Axis forces in Egypt, and a Honolulu broadcast recounts an air battle over New Guinea. John Daly anchors the program from New York, and the broadcast is sponsored by Admiral Radio.
Wartime broadcast on November 8, 1942, moving between New York, Washington, Cairo, London, Moscow, Honolulu and North Africa.
Characters: John Daly, Winston Burdett, Larry LeSueur, Lee White, Webley Edwards, Major George Fielding Elliott, Warren Sweeney, Lieutenant Chester Brud
Listen for: Correspondent reports on the Allied landings in North Africa and the Axis retreat in Egypt, and a first-hand account of an air battle over New Guinea.
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.