CBS World News Today – March 12, 1944

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Douglas Edwards

CBS World News Today

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Free Republic University, Department of History presents World War II Plus 70 Years: Seminar and Discussion Forum
First session: September 1, 2009. Last date to add: September 2, 2015.
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In today’s news -

John Daly, Naples, on the Italian front and an interview with a B-26 pilot about a mission to Florence.
Charles Shaw in London interviews Air Commodore Patrick Huskinson, leader of the team that developed the 12,000 lb. bomb.
Major George Fielding Eliot, CBS military analyst, on the eastern front.
John Adams, Rio de Janeiro, on news from South America.
Glenn Stadler, Madrid, tells of an RAF attack on Berlin that killed all the guests at a party Joseph Goebbels was throwing at a hotel.
Webley Edwards, Pearl Harbor, tells of his visit to some Marines of the 4th Division who invaded the Marshall Islands.
Don Pryor, Washington, on the Irish question. Also interviews the commander of a U-Boat patrol squadron home from the south Atlantic.

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