0:00-3:41: Eric Eric Sevareid from Washington:

• First news came from FDR himself. The U.S. force is powerful and under American command.
• This was done to forestall an invasion of Africa by Italy and Germany.
• The invasion provides 2nd front assistance to our heroic allies in Russia.
• A broadcast was prerecorded by FDR for the French people, and he spoke in French.
• General Eisenhower also spoke to the French by radio.

3:41-6:40 Edward R. Murrow from London

• War in the Mediterranean.
• There will be few reports coming out of Africa because of a lack of transmission facilities.
• The news of the U.S. landing will lighten British hearts.

6:40-11:37: Major George Fielding Eliot from Washington:

• The Axis hope for further penetration of Africa has ended.
• Casablanca is a likely landing site.
• Eliot reviews the key points in North Africa.
• An important point is whether or not the French will resist the American landing.

11:37-12:55: John Daly Wraps up the broadcast.