Just three days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Fred Allen hosts his hour long comedy show on CBS Radio. It's followed by the latest news from the war courtesy of John Daly of CBS News (and later What's My Line fame). Not the announcement at the beginning of the show on how the Texaco siren would not be used due to the Peal Harbor attack.

Larry Meier of Mutual Radio: First Eyewitness Account of D-Day From the Air by Ray Steele on WIBC

What do you hear?

H.V. Kaltenborn was one of the pre-eminent news analysts and commentators of his era, if not the most well known. His regular program that aired from 3:15 until 3:30pm Eastern on Sunday afternoons was, naturally, dedicated to the news of the day. This broadcast is interrupted with breaking news -- long before the term was used -- regarding Japanese attacks, even though the actual attack on Hawaii was ending as this aired.

CBS had a regularly scheduled news program, The World Today, that aired at 2:30pm Eastern on Sunday afternoons. This was minutes after the first word from Washington of the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor, which had happened just over an hour before. Keep in mind how information moved at that time.

The Mutual Broadcasting System, of which WIBC in Indianapolis was an affiliate, was broadcasting a live remote of Harry James & His Orchestra when the first news reports of the invasion of Normandy arrived.. they were unconfirmed, based on German radio reports the U.S. news services were monitoring.

As service members had been killed and were being killed around him, CBS Radio's Charles Collingwood recording a report sent back to Ed Murrow in London on D-Day. Incredible history.

This BBC correspondent put his life on the line by recording this from a glider - no engine, as it landed with a wave during DDay. A lot of men lost their lives in the gliders, crashes, shot down, etc.

In the overnight hours of June 6, 1944, Americans who were awake and listening to their radios got the first word that the D-Day invasion that turned the tide of World War II and took so many American, Canadian, British and other Allied lives, had begun. Note how the great newsman Bob Trout on CBS Radio was careful to say these were unsubstantiated reports from German radio - The U.S. had not yet confirmed the invasion. A different time for news, indeed.

May 7, 1937, 80 years ago, was the first time we heard this iconic Herb Morrison broadcast of the Hindenburg disaster in Lakehurst, New Jersey. It was the day after the disaster, though. It was all recorded by Morrison and his engineer on May 6.