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1944 Radio News

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News from 1944.

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I usually share these via torrent but I don't think all these files are available on archive.org so here's a 1944 news file dump. Plus some V-Discs.

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Episodes, in broadcast order page 2 of 5

  1. CBS World News Today

    · 25 min

  2. BBC Glenn Miller AEF Band

    · 15 min

  3. NBC War Telescope Targets Bombed in Southern Germany

    · 14 min

  4. CBS World News Today

    · 25 min

  5. BBC C.S. Lewis Personality

    · 14 min

  6. MBS Special A Night In A Foxhole

    · 14 min

  7. AFRS Army Hour Soldiers See Movies

    · 30 min

  8. CBS World News Today

    · 25 min

  9. BBC Wynford Vaughn-Thomas Reports On The Spearhead

    · 1:57

  10. NBC War Telescope A Decorated Fighter Pilot

    · 14 min

  11. CBS World News Today

    · 25 min

  12. WJR Army Day Sing Along with the Landt Trio

    · 15 min

  13. NBC War Telescope Bombings of Factories in Brunswick, Germany

    · 14 min

  14. NBC War Telescope Invasion Excercises

    · 14 min

  15. RSH Germany Calling We Are Waiting for You

    · 4:37

  16. BBC Wynford Vaughan Thomas Springtime At Anzio

    · 1:42

  17. NBC War Telescope Tensions in Britain Increase as Invasion Nears

    · 14 min

  18. NBC Jack Benny (The Grape Nuts & Grape Nuts Flakes Program) Dennis Leaves for the Navy

    · 28 min

  19. Dick Haymes & Helen Forrest Long Ago (And Far Away)

    · 3:27

  20. NBC War Telescope U.S. Planes in U.K. practice Bomb Runs

    · 14 min

  21. V-Disc A Boston Port Of Embarkation Band - General Kell's March & Tramp Tramp Tramp

    · 3:40

  22. V-Disc B Boston Port Of Embarkation Band - K-K-K-Katie & Rack Up Another Beer Boys

    · 3:41

  23. V-Disc A Charlie Spivak & his Orchestra - Suddenly It's Spring

    · 4:07

  24. V-Disc B Charlie Spivak & his Orchestra - I'll Get By & Arkansas

    · 4:10

  25. V-Disc A Doctor Clayton - Watch Out Mama / Lil Green - What Have I Done?

    · 5:37

  26. V-Disc B Eddie Condon's Jazz Band - Uncle Sam Blues

    · 4:23

  27. CBS Used Fats Reminder

    · 0:28

  28. CBS I Sustain The Wings Glenn Miller Conducting

    · 30 min

  29. NBC War Telescope The Bombing of the Pescara Dam

    · 14 min

  30. NBC Skelly News Of The World

    · 15 min

  31. CBC Peter Stursberg The Hills Of Hell (Gustav Line)

    · 4:35

  32. CBS World News Today

    · 25 min

  33. BBC Godfrey Talbot in Monte Cassino

    · 1:53

  34. CBS Report To The Nation The Italian Front

    · 29 min

  35. NBC War Telescope The Zimmerman Twins

    · 14 min

  36. CBS World News Today

    · 25 min

  37. CBC Peter Stursberg Breaking The Hitler Line

    · 4:27

  38. V-Disc A Tommy Tucker Time - I Never Mentioned Your Name

    · 1:53

  39. V-Disc A Tommy Tucker Time - They're Either Too Young Or Too Old

    · 1:51

  40. V-Disc B Tommy Tucker Time - There's a Flame Still Burning

    · 3:33

  41. AFRS Pied Pipers Besame Mucho

    · 2:28

  42. V-Disc A Curtis Bay Coast Guard Philharmonicas - Harmonica Boogie Woogie & Dark Eyes & El Choclo

    · 4:33

  43. V-Disc B Curtis Bay Coast Guard Philharmonicas - Czardas & Carioca

    · 4:24

  44. V-Disc A Duke Ellington & his Orchestra - Take The

    · 5:31

  45. V-Disc B Duke Ellington & his Orchestra - Flamingo

    · 3:22

  46. BBC Robin Duff On Sealed Ship

    · 0:41

  47. NBC War Telescope A Great Daylight Air Raid

    · 14 min

  48. BBC Frank Gillard on Build Up to D-Day

    · 0:43

  49. BBC European Service With Resistance Messages

    · 1:04

  50. BBC Field Marshall Montgomery Address On Eve Of D-Day

    · 0:53

  51. BBC Godfrey Talbot Address On Eve Of D-Day

    · 1:16

  52. BBC Richard Dimbleby Address On Eve Of D-Day

    · 0:47

  53. BBC Rome Welcomes the Allies

    · 1:15

  54. Eisenhower Pre D-Day Announcement to Troops

    · 1:42

  55. FDR Fireside Chat

    · 14 min

  56. AFRS Bob Hope Van Nuys Airdrome snippet

    · 6:02

  57. WOR Harry James, Kitty Kallen Interrupted

    · 2:54

  58. CBS News Uncomfirmed Reports Of Invasion

    · 12 min

  59. BBC John Snagge London Calling

    · 0:55

  60. CBS D-Day Broadcast

    · 47 min

  61. NBC D-Day Broadcast

    · 23 min

  62. NBC D-Day Broadcast

    · 13 min

  63. CBS D-Day Broadcast

    · 43 min

  64. NBC D-Day Broadcast

    · 17 min

  65. CBS D-Day Broadcast

    · 46 min

  66. CBS D-Day Broadcast

    · 47 min

  67. CBS World News

    · 1:43

  68. NBC D-Day Broadcast

    · 6:52

  69. CBS D-Day Broadcast

    · 42 min

  70. NBC D-Day Broadcast

    · 15 min

  71. CBS Valiant Lady - Buy War Bonds

    · 2:24

  72. CBS Light Of The World

    · 13 min

  73. CBS Kate Smith Speaks - Prayer For Our Troops

    · 14 min

  74. CBS Romance Of Helen Trent

    · 29 min

  75. CBS D-Day Broadcast

    · 43 min

  76. CBS Quincy Howe Reporting

    · 4:55

  77. CBS News John Daly

    · 23 min

  78. NBC News Reports From London

    · 15 min

  79. CBS King George VI On D-Day

    · 8:31

  80. NBC D-Day Broadcast

    · 30 min

  81. CBS D-Day Broadcast

    · 17 min

  82. NBC News Lowell Thomas Reporting

    · 12 min

  83. NBCR Fibber McGee & Molly D-Day Broadcast

    · 30 min

  84. CBS Passing Parade

    · 14 min

  85. NBC Dr Goldstein And Ginny Simms

    · 30 min

  86. CBS D-Day Broadcast

    · 43 min

  87. CBS FDR D-Day Prayer

    · 6:50

  88. NBC FDR D-Day Address And Prayer

    · 2:28

  89. NBCR Bob Hope Show

    · 6:02

  90. NBC Fred Waring And His Pennsylvanians

    · 19 min

  91. CBS D-Day Coverage Ned Calmer, Quincy Howe

    · 14 min

  92. AFRS Everything for the Boys Death Takes a Holiday Ronald Colman

    · 31 min

  93. BBC Air-Commodore William Helmore reports from a Mitchell bomber

    · 0:55

  94. BBC Alan Melville Sees Paratroops

    · 0:23

  95. BBC Allied Troops Prayer Before Invasion

    · 0:30

  96. BBC British Tank Crew Describes Beach Landing

    · 0:25

  97. BBC Chester Wilmot Reports From Inside British Glider

    · 0:33

  98. BBC Chester Wilmot Sees Gliders

    · 0:26

  99. BBC Colin Wills Lands With Infantry

    · 0:26

  100. BBC Dwight D. Eisenhower Message to Western Europe

    · 0:29

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