Elmer Davis and the News
Germans Push Toward Channel Ports
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Elmer Davis and the News presents radio news reporting by journalist and broadcaster Elmer Davis. This recording is dated May 21, 1940, during the Second World War, and its title identifies a report on German forces pushing toward the Channel ports.
Davis’s clear, measured delivery brings the day’s events into focus through spoken reporting rather than dramatic reenactment. The program offers a direct encounter with wartime news as it was presented to radio listeners, with attention centered on the developments named in the report.
The listening experience is concise and journalistic: a snapshot of a rapidly changing moment, carried by Davis’s authoritative voice and the immediacy of contemporary broadcast news.
This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.