A lull of sorts.
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Mutual News – Leslie Nichols Report from Egypt – August 5, 1942 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection
While intense fighting was going on in practically every other part of the Mediterranean, Europe and the Pacific, there was a lull of sorts in Cairo. Actually, Cairo was a hub of activity and a focal point for the allies to push the Germans out of Northern Africa.
But it was the dead of Summer and the war was grinding on. This report, by Mutual’s Leslie Nichols, paints a picture of Wartime Cairo as a hotbed of activity.
This was part of what was intended to be a longer newscast from various points in the conflict. But as technology of the time limited these reports to being transmitted via shortwave, the whims of the atmosphere made getting these reports difficult to hear or even impossible at times, just as what happened with this report and a similar report later in the broadcast, coming from Australia.
Covering a war was a lot different then. Here is that truncated newscast from Mutual Radio, as broadcast on August 5, 1942.
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