WWII Era Audio Recordings
Broadcasts from the World War II years: news, commentary and speeches, gathered year by year.
From WWII Era Audio Recordings at the Internet Archive.
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1944 Radio News
1944
1945 Radio News
1945
1940 Radio News
1940
1941 Radio News
1941
1943 Radio News
1942–1943
1942 Radio News
1942
Words at War
NBC · 1943–1945
Zero Hour
1973–1974
1930-1937 Radio News
1924–1948
1970-1979 Radio News
1970–1984
1939 Radio News
1939
1950-1959 Radio News
1950–1959
1960-1969 Radio News
1960–1969
AFRS Jubilee
AFRS · 1943–1952
100 OTR Thanksgiving Holiday
1935–1975
AFRS G.I. Jive
AFRS · 1943–1950
AFRS One Night Stand
AFRS · 1943–1964
1938 Radio News
1938
1947 Radio News
1947
Europe Confidential
1957
1946 Radio News
1946
The Voice of The Army
1944–1950
1948 Radio News
1948
What Are We Fighting For?
1942
1949 Radio News
1949
Marian Anderson Performs On The Steps Of The Lincoln Memorial, With An Introduction By Harold Ickes
1939
AFRS Proudly We Hail
AFRS · 1949–1957
1944 Esquire All-American Jazz Concert
NBC Blue · 1944
Speaking of Liberty
NBC · 1941
AFRS Jill's All-Time Jukebox
WWII Era Audio Recordings
Seabiscuit Horse Races
1937–1940
Marches
1943–1948
Jack Benny USO Show Cairo Egypt
AFRS · 1943
News Flash Describing The Japanese Attack On Pearl Harbor
1941
America Looks Abroad
NBC · 1940–1941
Vox Pop
1939–1948
Berlin Broadcast to Allied Forces
1944
German American Bund Rally Address By Its Leader Fritz Kuhn
1939
Kentucky Derby Broadcasts
1940–1954
Adolf Hitler's Address on the Sudeten Germans
1938
The Eisenhower Years
1961–1970
Franklin Roosevelt's Fireside Chat After Germany's Invasion Of Poland
1939
German Radio Broadcast "Berlin to North America"
1941
Esquire's 1946 All-American Jazz Band Concert
1946
Radio Report to the Nation on the Dropping of the Atomic Bomb
1945
Address By Madame Chiang To Congress
1943
Jim Hawthorne's The Hawthorne Thing & Promos
WWII Era Audio Recordings
We Will Never Die: Ben Hecht & Kurt Weill
1944
Radio drama, old-time radio and historic broadcasts from the Internet Archive (its Old Time Radio collection with the Old Time Radio Researchers' sets, WWII Era Audio Recordings, the Pacifica Radio Archives, the Radio Haiti Archive, German radio plays and listeners' uploads), Wikimedia Commons (with the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision's broadcasts) and the Library of Congress. Every episode plays from its archive, which this site does not copy; rights are as each archive states them. Nothing here is called public domain on this site's say-so. In the United States, sound recordings first fixed before 15 February 1972 have federal protection under the Music Modernization Act of 2018, for most until 2067 at the latest, so most American radio of the 1930s to the 1950s is not in the public domain there. Each set shows the licence, mark or statement its archive gives, and says whose it is. Horror, crime, war and westerns are for teenage and adult profiles, racist caricature for adults only, and children’s profiles hear what was made for children. More about these archives.