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Podcast: Breaking Walls: The Podcast on the History of American Network Radio Broadcasting
Episode: BW - EP148—007: February 1944 With Bob Hope—Mid February World War II News
Description: The week of February 13th, 1944 began with the Allies raiding Hong Kong and giving supplies to French resistance fighters.
The next day a British submarine sank a German u-boat in a rare Pacific theater battle involving Germans.
On Tuesday the 15th, the Soviets began their first offensive in the Battle of Narva while a Japanese cruiser was torpedoed by a U.S. submarine.
By the middle of the week the Battle of the Korsun–Cherkassy Pocket ended in a Soviet victory with German forces fleeing for their lives, while American forces launched Operation Hailstone, a massive attack against a Japanese na...