206 - The Extraordinary Life of Journalist Wallace Carroll

The WW2 Podcast

Angus Wallace

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4.7 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Journalist Wallace Carroll had a career that spanned 45 years as a journalist. His first foreign posting, in 1929, was to London with the United Press newswire service. Throughout the 1930s, he covered the major events in Europe and witnessed the Spanish Civil War first-hand. Posted back to London, he dictated his early reports of the Blitz from his office rood top. Carroll had a knack for being in places at the right time.

His talents and connections got him noticed, and he finished the war working for the US government with the Office of War Information. Here, he was tasked with counteracting German propaganda and conducting 'physiological warfare'.

Joining me is Mary Llewellyn McNeil.

Mary has written the biography of Carroll, Century's Witness: The Extraordinary Life of Journalist Wallace Carroll.

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0:30.0	This country is at war with Germany.
0:34.0	We shall go under the end.
0:38.0	I remember the sheets of planes came up and almost flying it as my guns.
0:43.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of the World War Two podcast.
0:55.0	I'm Angus Wallace.
0:57.0	Wallace Carroll had a career that spanned 45 years as a journalist.
1:00.0	His first foreign posting in 1929 was to London with the United Press Newswire service.
1:07.0	Throughout the 1930s, he covered the major events in Europe and witnessed
1:11.0	the Spanish Civil War first hand.
1:14.0	Posted back to London, he dictated his early reports of the blitz from his office rooftop.
1:20.0	Carroll had a knack for being in places at the right time.
1:24.0	His talents and connections got noticed and he finished the war working for the US government
1:30.0	with the Office of War information.
1:32.0	Here he was tasked with counteracting German propaganda and conducting psychological warfare.
1:39.0	Joining me is Mary Louellen McNeil.
1:42.0	Mary has written the biography of Carroll centuries witness the extraordinary life of journalist Wallace Carroll.
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