Elmer Davis and the News

Germans Advance in the Netherlands

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Read by Elmer Davis

Elmer Davis and the News presents a news broadcast led by journalist and commentator Elmer Davis. This recording is dated May 11, 1940, and its title identifies the report’s focus: the German advance in the Netherlands.

Listeners can expect a concise, spoken account of current events rather than a dramatized story. Davis’s clear, measured delivery brings the news to the foreground, offering a direct snapshot of wartime developments as they were reported to radio audiences.


This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.