RADIO AND WORLD WAR II
IN THE WINTER OF 1945 – Part 2

Originally broadcast on WDCB
Saturday, January 22, 2005

* COMMAND PERFORMANCE (2-15-45) “Dick Tracy in B Flat” starring Bing Crosby as Dick Tracy; Dinah Shore as Tess Trueheart, Bob Hope as Flattop, Jimmy Durante as The Mole, Judy Garland as Snowflake, Andrews Sisters as Summer Sisters, Frank Sinatra as Shaky. An-all star “comic strip operetta” AFRS. (28 min & 26 min) Read the article on page 16.

*FIBBER McGEE AND MOLLY (2-27-45) Jim and Marian Jordan star. Fibber finds out that someone has replaced him as head of the Red Cross Drive for his district. Johnson’s Wax, NBC. (30 min)

*PRESIDENT FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT (3-1-45) The president reports to a joint session of Congress on his 14,000-mile trip to Malta and Yalta. This is FDR’s last address to Con­gress. CBS and all networks. (31 min & 30 min)

*WORLD NEWS TODAY (3-25-45) Bob Trout and CBS correspondents worldwide report. “On the eastern bank of the Rhine… the 21st Army Group has linked all its bridgeheads. The Allies are pouring men and materiel across the river in preparation for the decisive battle. …Wash­ington reports that three B-29s were lost in yesterday’s low-level attack on Japan’s aircraft factories, …but bombing results were described as good.” Admiral Radios, CBS. (25 min).