News: CBS: World News Today : excerpts on the bombing of Hamburg, and an interview with a Marine Corps pilot shot down over Guadalcanal
July 25, 1943
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Two excerpts from this show are included here. They are highlighted in gray below.
 

0:00-1:04: Introduction and headlines

1:04-5:11: John Daly from Algiers

  • Final battle for Tripoli imminent
  • Seige of Palermo described.

5:11-7:07: Commercial for Admiral Radio


7:07-9:50: Edward R. Murrow from London

  • Germans had predicted their submarines would return to the sea with new technology. Yesterday, British bombers attacked submarine center at Hamburg. (This is the beginning of The Battle of Hamburg).

9:50-11:38: Report from New Delhi, India

11:38-13:44: Report from Moscow on the morale of the Russian army.

13:44-16:35: Report from Washington on the Pacific front.

  • Still no further news from the Aleutians.
  • News from China.
  • White House indicates FDR is considering another Fireside Chat, the first in almost a year.
16:48-19:30 From Pearl Harbor: Interview with a Marine pilot shot down by the Japanese at Guadalcanal.

1930-22:40: Major George Fielding Eliot: Analysis and more war news.

22:40-end: Commercial and sign off.

Allied aircraft whipped up a firestorm in Hamburg