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And welcome back to the takeout and our

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latest CBS News Radio tribute, Edward R.

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Murrow brought listeners to the front

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lines of World War II and tonight we

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have his famed 1943 broadcast aboard an

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Allied bombing run over Berlin. Five

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radio correspondents went on the

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mission, but Murrow was one of only two

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who survived. Here's some of his report.

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CBS World News now brings you a special

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broadcast from London.

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Columbia's correspondent Edward R.

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Murrow was on one of the RAF bombing

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planes that smashed at Berlin last night

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in one of the heaviest attacks of the

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war.

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41 bombers were lost in the raid and

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three out of the five correspondents who

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flew with the raiders failed to return.

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For Mr. Murrow's story of the attack, we

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take you now to London.

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This is London.

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Yesterday afternoon the waiting was

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over. The weather was right. The target

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was to be the big city.

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The crew captains walked in the briefing

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room, looked at the maps and charts, and

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sat down with their big celluloid pads

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on their knees. The atmosphere was that

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of a school and a church. The weatherman

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gave us the weather. The pilots were

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reminded that Berlin is Germany's

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greatest center of war production. The

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intelligence officer told us how many

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heavy and light ack-ack guns, how many

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searchlights we might expect to

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encounter.

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By this time we were about 30 miles from

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our target area in Berlin.

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That 30 miles was the longest flight I

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have ever made.

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Dead on time, Buzz the bomb aimer,

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reported,

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"Target indicator is going down."

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At the same moment the sky ahead was lit

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up by bright yellow flares. Off to

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starboard another kite went down in

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flames.

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The flares were sprouting all over the

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sky, reds and greens and yellows.

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And we were flying straight for the

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center of the firework.

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D dog seemed to be standing still.

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The four propellers thrashing the air.

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But we didn't seem to be closing in.

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The cloud had cleared, and off to the

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starboard a Lanc was caught by at least

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14 searchlight beams.

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We could see him twist and turn and

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finally break out.

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But still the whole thing had a quality

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of unreality about it.

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No one seemed to be shooting at us,

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but it was getting lighter all the time.

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Suddenly,

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a tremendous big blob of yellow light

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appeared dead ahead, another to the

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right, and another to the left. We were

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flying straight for them.

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Jock pointed out to me the dummy fires

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and flares to right and left, but we

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kept going in.

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Dead ahead there was a whole chain of

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red flares, looking like stoplights.

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Another Lanc was coned on our starboard

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beam. The light seemed to be supporting

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it.

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Again, we could see those little bubbles

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of colored lead driving at it from two

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sides. The German fighters were at him.

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And then with no warning at all,

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D Dog was filled with an unhealthy white

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light.

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I was standing just behind Jock and

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could see all the seams on the wings.

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His quiet Scott's voice beat into my

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ears.

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Steady, lads. We've been coned.

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His slender body lifted

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half out of the seat

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as he jammed the control column forward

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and to the left.

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We were going down.

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Jock was wearing woolen gloves with the

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fingers cut off.

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I could see his fingernails turn white

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as he gripped the wheel.

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And then I was on my knees,

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flat on the deck, for he had whipped the

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dog back into a climbing turn.

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The knees should have been strong enough

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to support me, but they weren't.

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And the stomach seemed in some danger of

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letting me down, too.

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I picked myself up and looked out again.

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It seemed that one big searchlight,

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instead of being 20,000 ft below, was

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mounted right on our wing tip.

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D Dog was corkscrewing. As we rolled out

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on the other side, I began to see what

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was happening to Berlin.

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The clouds were gone.

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And the sticks of incendiaries from the

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preceding waves made the place look like

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a badly laid out city with the

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streetlights on.

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The small incendiaries were going down

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like a fistful of white rice thrown on a

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piece of black velvet.

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As Jock hauled the dog up again, I was

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thrown to the other side of the cockpit.

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And there below were more incendiaries,

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glowing white and then turning red.

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The cookies, the 4,000-lb high

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explosives were bursting below like

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great sunflowers gone mad.

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And then as we started down again, still

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held in the light,

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I remembered that the dog still had one

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of those cookies and a whole basket of

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incendiaries in his belly. And the light

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still held us.

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And I was very frightened.

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And I was very frightened.