World Radio Day

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.

Germany transmits external broadcasts in 26 languages.  September : The German government makes listening to foreign radio broadcasts a capital offence.  The French Ministry of Posts, Telegraphs and Telephones establishes Radio Dakar in Senegal.