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World News Today
33 episodes · 1942–1945 · CBS · News
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CBS's wartime Sunday news roundup, with reports from correspondents around the world. Admiral Radio paid for it. Dates and credits are from RadioGOLDINdex.
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Episodes
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1942
- World News Today, November 8, 1942
News for the Sunday: American soldiers go ashore in North Africa, Hitler gives a Munich speech, and there are reports on Rommel's losses and on the Russian army still standing. - World News Today, November 29, 1942
A World News Today broadcast with correspondents including John Daly and Larry LeSueur. Planned reports from Charles Collingwood in Algiers and Robert Trout in London are not heard. - World News Today, December 6, 1942
The program celebrates its first year on the air, with reports from Charles Collingwood, Robert Trout, Leigh White and others.
1943
- World News Today, March 7, 1943
News with Charles Collingwood and Douglas Edwards. A report from Moscow is canceled for poor reception, and the Admiral radio commercial predicts color pictures and home recording. - World News Today, March 14, 1943
News with reports from Cairo, Rio de Janeiro and Algiers, including Bill Slocum's story of a captured Japanese Zero fighter. - World News Today, April 11, 1943
News with Charles Collingwood and Douglas Edwards, including a message from Quentin Reynolds read aloud in the studio. - World News Today, April 18, 1943
- World News Today, July 11, 1943
Chester Morrison paints a vivid picture of wartime Cairo, with reports from Rome, Australia and Algiers and Edward R. Murrow narrating. - Mussolini Resigns
- World News Today, August 8, 1943
A look at the Willow Run bomber factory outside Detroit, reported by Don Pryor, in a CBS Sunday news roundup. - World News Today, August 15, 1943
- World News Today, September 19, 1943
- World News Today, October 10, 1943
- World News Today, October 17, 1943
- World News Today, October 23, 1943
1944
- World News Today, January 9, 1944
- World News Today, February 6, 1944
- World News Today, February 20, 1944
Bill Slocum Jr. explains how V-Mail is handled, speaking from New York's Fleet Post Office. - World news today - f36d82757b0c1f33
- World News Today, April 2, 1944
A news roundup hosted by George Fielding Eliot, with reports from Larry LeSueur and Eric Sevareid. - World News Today, October 22, 1944
U.S. forces have come ashore at Leyte. Webley Edwards recalls the battleship Pennsylvania as she was at Pearl Harbor and tells how she fights now. Joseph McCaffrey questions Rear Admiral Cochran, the Navy's shipbuilding chief. - World News Today, October 29, 1944
The Allies take Breda in Holland, and Webley Edwards reports a big Navy victory at sea and interviews the first WAVE in Honolulu, Joy Hancock. Joe McCaffrey talks with Brigadier General Julian Hatcher. - World News Today, November 12, 1944
Americans push toward Metz while German armor forces them back, and Churchill addresses Paris in French. Webley Edwards questions Major General Douglas, who commands the 7th, about its Pacific hops, and Don Pryor speaks with General William Curtis about Peleliu. - World News Today, December 3, 1944
Seventy B-29s hit Tokyo as the Americans drive into Germany. A recording lets listeners hear the V-2, and civilians fight in the streets of Athens. - World News Today, December 31, 1944
Allied troops hold the Bastogne corridor, Budapest faces ruin, and London's New Year's Eve is gloomy. Don Pryor talks with Marine Major George Dooley, and Tris Coffin with Navy Seabee C.E. Shanley.
1945
- World News Today, January 28, 1945
The First Army heads for the Siegfried Line while snow grounds the planes. Sergeant James Cranz tells of being blown from a B-29 over Japan, and Lieutenant Virginia Satis, once a model, now nurses for the Army. - World News Today, February 18, 1945
- World News Today, April 5, 1945
- World News Today, May 13, 1945
Robert Trout opens by calling it a day of prayer. On the rooftop he used in the blitz, Murrow describes a flyover of American and British aircraft. Harold Stassen chats with two servicemen. - World News Today, May 20, 1945
Japanese radio claims 80 Super Fortresses raided Tokyo. Alan Jackson interviews Irving Kidwell, a yeoman who lived through the sinking attack on the aircraft carrier Franklin. - World News Today, July 8, 1945
Webley Edwards describes flying aboard a U.S. bomber that strafed Japanese ships off Korea. - World News Today, August 19, 1945
Japan has not yet given up, and General Wainwright is freed. - Japanese Surrender Broadcast Recap
A recap of V-J Day with Robert Trout anchoring and reports from Luzon, Tokyo Bay, Washington and London. The war with Japan is over.