Year 1942.

24 February: The Voice of America (VOA) starts short-wave broadcasts in English, French, Italian and German. 

14 July: Following an appeal launched on the BBC, tens of thousands of French people gather around war memorials and then parade through the main streets of French towns. 

The Office of War Information (OWI) is set up in the United States.


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