1945 Radio News


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News from 1945. I usually share these via torrent but I don't think all these files are available on archive.org so here's a 1945 news file dump. Plus some V-Discs. Any typo or error is mine. ...if you like my uploads / Demonoid torrents please consider donating to a veteran's charity of your choice, thank you. Especially if you intend to make $ or otherwise profit from these files. :D

This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.

Chapters

1945-01-06 FDR Fireside Chat On Battle Of The Bulge 20:42
1945-01-07 CBS World News Today 25:07
1945-01-14 CBS World News Today 24:57
1945-01-14 NBCB Yanks In The Orient 15:26
1945-01-17 BBC Will Hay Programme 28:44
1945-01-19 WCCO Noon Newscast Cedric Adams 14:52
1945-01-28 CBS World News Today 25:05
1945-01-28 WMCA Healy's Open House Nylon Stockings 14:06
1945-01-30 RRG Adolf Hitler Last Broadcast 0:33
1945-01-xx 463 V-Disc A Bing Crosby - A Friend Of Yours & That Sly Old Gentlema… 5:29
1945-01-xx 463 V-Disc B Dinah Shore - I Fall In Love Too Easily & I Can't Belie… 5:08
1945-02-09 WEAF Evening News With Don Hollenbeck 14:27
1945-02-12 FDR Returns From Allied Conference At Yalta 3:45
1945-02-18 CBS World News Today 24:35
1945-02-19 BBC Sgt. Richard Mawson Lands On Iwo Jima 2:20
1945-02-19 CAN Arthur Prim Reports The First Strikes On Iwo Jima 1:11
1945-02-19 CAN Arthur Prim Iwo Flight 4:59
1945-02-19 CAN Iwo Landing 0:17
1945-02-19 CAN Live Coverage Of U.S. Marines Landing On Iwo Jima 4:49
1945-02-19 CAN Sgt. Mawson On Iwo Jima Landings 2:17
1945-02-19 MBS Leslie Nichols On Iwo Battleship 3:08
1945-02-20 CAN Report On Japanese Fortifications On Iwo Jima 0:40
1945-02-22 CBS The March Of Time How American Wives Are Faring 29:30
1945-02-22 Tank Communications In Battle For Iwo Jima 1:26
1945-02-25 CAN Bud Foster From Flagship Of Admiral Kelly Turner 1:44
1945-02-25 CAN James Forrestal On The Battle Of Iwo Jima 4:26
1945-02-25 NBCB Jergens Journal Walter Winchell partial 10:27
1945-02-27 CAN Sgt. Dick Mawson and engineer Sgt. Harvey Williams Battle Of Mot… 3:48
1945-02-xx 364 V-Disc A Charlie Barnet & his Orchestra Kay Starr - Nobody Knows… 3:59
1945-02-xx 364 V-Disc B Eddy Howard & his Orchestra - Old-Fashioned Love 4:16
1945-02-xx CAN Iwo Jima Underground Fortifications 0:40
1945-02-xx NBC Bud Foster Battle For Iwo Jima 3:36
1945-03-01 CBC Fred Tilston Wins Victoria Cross For Attack In Germany 2:47
1945-03-01 FDR Last Address Before Congress 1:00:33
1945-03-03 MBS Leslie Nichols Reports As Battleship Destroys Plane 0:46
1945-03-04 CBS World News Today 24:41
1945-03-05 CBC Matthew Halton A Soldier At The Breaking Point 4:25
1945-03-08 BBC Freddy Grisewood Remagen Bridge Crossed 0:21
1945-03-08 BBC Ian Wilson Reports Americans Cross The Rhine 0:21
1945-03-11 BBC Chester Wilmot Reports From Montgomery's HQ 1:42
1945-03-11 CBS World News Today 24:50
1945-03-15 CBS The March Of Time Report Of Vatican Policies 29:30
1945-03-17 CBS Report To The Nation Wendy Barrie clip 4:03
1945-03-18 CBS World News Today 24:54
1945-03-20 CBS Harry Marble United Nations Conference In San Francisco 14:28
1945-03-21 BBC Richard Sharpe General Slim's 14 Army In Mandalay 2:04
1945-03-22 CBS The March Of Time Black Marketeers In France 29:50
1945-03-23 NBC Alka-Seltzer News Of The World 14:29
1945-03-24 BBC Richard Dimbleby As Gliders Cross Rhine 1:11
1945-03-24 BBC Richard Dimbleby Recounts Glider Landing 3:43
1945-03-24 BBC W.V. Thomas Awaiting To Cross The Rhine 2:12
1945-03-25 BBC Robert Barr Reports Winston Churchill Crosses The Rhine 1:23
1945-03-25 CAN Stanley Maxted Recounts German Attack On Hamilcar 1:35
1945-03-25 CBS World News Today 24:48
1945-03-26 NBC World News Roundup 19:25
1945-03-28 BBC Stuart McPherson Reports From Germany 1:16
1945-03-29 CBS The March Of Time The Kitchen Of Tomorrow 29:05
1945-03-31 BBC British Soldier Released From OFLAG 12B 3:36
1945-03-31 BBC Wynford Vaughan-Thomas Reports On The Spearhead 1:58
1945-03-xx 382 V-Disc A Woody Herman & his Orchestra - Red Top 4:30
1945-03-xx 382 V-Disc B Guy Lombardo and his Orchestra - Poor Little Rhode Isla… 5:27
1945-03-xx 383 V-Disc A Josh White - Cottoneyed Joe & One Meat Ball 4:41
1945-03-xx 383 V-Disc B Hoagy Carmichael - Baltimore Oriole & Hong Kong Blues 4:22
1945-03-xx 390 V-Disc A Marie Greene with Van Cleve & his Orchestra - Easy To L… 3:24
1945-03-xx 390 V-Disc B Marie Greene - Don't Ever Change & Walk A Little Talk A… 5:06
1945-03-xx CAN Marine Staff Sgt. Alvin M. Josephy Jr. Desolation On Iwo Jima 2:01
1945-04-01 BBC Edward Ward On Buchenwald 11:34
1945-04-03 NBC War Report On The Battle Of Okinawa 1:49
1945-04-04 AFRS Pied Pipers - Dream 2:59
1945-04-05 CBS The March of Time First Recorded Sounds of Mosquitos 29:44
1945-04-05 CBS World News Today 25:02
1945-04-05 WBZ Yankee Yarns Fishing Boat Sunk By U-Boat 11:26
1945-04-07 CBC Matthew Halton Gestapo In Holland 4:13
1945-04-08 BBC Richard Dimbleby Reports on German Civilian Reaction 2:07
1945-04-08 CBS World News Today 24:50
1945-04-12 CBS Bill Henry Reports On Order Of Succession 11:40
1945-04-12 CBS Bulletin Reports FDR Is Dead 0:25
1945-04-12 CBS Don Fisher Coverage Following FDR's Death 21:31
1945-04-12 MBS Fulton Lewis Reports FDR's Death 1:04
1945-04-12 NBCB Coverage Of FDR's Death 13:51
1945-04-12 CBS ABC Death of FDR 14:16
1945-04-12 WNYC Fiorello La Guardia On FDR 9:54
1945-04-13 BBC News Dora Bateman Commentary On FDR's Death 4:39
1945-04-13 CBS Memorial Services For Franklin D. Roosevelt 15:14
1945-04-13 NBC News 12:41
1945-04-13 NBC Reports On FDR's Funeral Train 13:41
1945-04-13 Undelivered FDR speech given by FDR Jr. 5:29
1945-04-15 CBS Edward R. Murrow On Buchenwald 10:40
1945-04-15 CBS Edward R. Murrow A Report from London 10:40
1945-04-15 CBS World News Today 25:02
1945-04-15 NBC Our Hour Of National Sorrow 1:58:42
1945-04-15 NBCB Sammy Kaye's Sunday Serenade 24:20
1945-04-15 WMCA New World a Coming (43) Memorial to Franklin D Roosevelt 29:59
1945-04-16 President Truman Addesses Congress After FDR's Funeral 6:02
1945-04-17 CBC Canadian Army Repels Desperate Germans 4:01
1945-xx-17 CBS This Is My Best I Will Not Go Back (FDR) 28:10
1945-04-17 President Truman On The Death Of President Roosevelt 3:34
1945-04-18 CBS Ernie Pyle Killed In Action 0:25
1945-04-19 BBC Richard Dimbleby Belsen 11:50
1945-04-19 BBC Richard Dimbleby Reports From Belsen 1:11
1945-04-20 CBC RCAF Warren Wilkes Allied POWs Free At Last 3:42
1945-04-21 BBC Red Army Set To Enter Berlin 1:10
1945-04-22 CBC Food Prices 4:27
1945-04-22 NBC Drew Pearson WWII News 11:00
1945-04-22 NBCB Walter Winchell WWII News 10:38
1945-04-23 CBC Matthew Halton This Country Of Unspeakable Evil 9:26
1945-04-24 BBC Wynford Vaughan Thomas Reports On Bucholz Hall Of Honor 3:43
1945-04-24 CBC Spies And Refugees In Allied Territory 2:48
1945-04-25 BBC Edward Ward Reports From Link-Up Lunch At Elbe 0:55
1945-04-25 BBC Freddy Grisewood & Frank Gillard at Torgau-Elbe 0:45
1945-04-25 CBC Matthew Halton Has Hitler Fled From Burning Berlin? 4:08
1945-04-27 2300 NBC WEAF Special: U.S. Russia Meet 1:01:41
1945-04-27 BBC Mussolini Partisans 1:08
1945-04-27 BBC Russians and Americans Link 0:45
1945-04-27 CBS Edward R. Murrow Stalin Speech 2:16
1945-04-27 MBS Sigrid Schultz In Ravensbruck 2:18
1945-04-27 NBC Special Broadcast 9:05
1945-04-27 NBC WMAQ Special: U.S. & Russia Meet 9:05
1945-04-28 MBS American POW interviews 11:08
1945-04-28 NBCB News Robert Krupp Reports 4:22
1945-04-29 CBS I Was There The Story of Ernie Pyle 29:03
1945-04-29 NBC Jergens Journal Walter Winchell 12:02
1945-04-30 CBC Général Vannier Témoigne De L'horreur Des Camps De Concentration 0:21
1945-04-30 RSH Lord Haw Haw Final Drunken Broadcast 9:51
1945-04-30 Scanning The Radio Dial 29:54
1945-04-31 BBC Robert Reid On Siegenheim Prison Camp 2:26
1945-04-xx 248 V-Disc B Count & Basie & his Orchestra - On The Upbeat 3:53
1945-04-xx 406 V-Disc A Charlie Spivak & his Orchestra - Only Another Boy & Gir… 5:56
1945-04-xx 406 V-Disc B Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra - More And More & You're D… 5:36
1945-04-xx CBS Edward R. Murrow Delayed-Action War 3:32
1945-04-xx First Service At Belsen Concentration Camp 0:34
1945-05-01 BBC Adolf Hitler Is Dead 0:46
1945-05-01 BBC Stuart Hibberd Announces Hitler Is Dead 0:44
1945-05-01 CBC Matthew Halton A Toast At Torgau 4:07
1945-05-01 MBS News Reports Hitler Is Dead 14:14
1945-05-01 NBCB Bulletin Adolph Hitler Is Dead 1:17
1945-05-02 BBC Stuart Hibberd Announces The Fall Of Berlin 0:30
1945-05-03 BBC W.V. Thomas On Wehrmacht Surrender In Lauenberg 0:30
1945-05-03 CBS The World Today Thousands Surrender 1:30
1945-05-04 AMGH W.V. Thomas Mock Germany Calling Broadcast 3:13
1945-05-04 BBC Chester Wilmot Awaits Surrender At Mongomery's HQ 0:21
1945-05-04 BBC European Service Interval Signal & ID 0:47
1945-05-04 BBC Field Marshall Montgomery Reads The Surrender Terms 0:58
1945-05-04 CBS German Cease Fire 1:54
1945-05-04 WGN George Olson War Bond Matinee 14:45
1945-05-05 BBC Radio Newsreel From Belsen Concentration Camp 29:32
1945-05-05 CBC Marcel Ouimet Can It Really Be Over? 4:29
1945-05-05 CBC Major C.F. Hoey Wins The Victoria Cross 2:19
1945-05-05 MBS Paul Manning Eisenhower Summary 3:31
1945-05-05 WHAS Kentucky Derby Ted Huesing 2:29
1945-05-06 NBC Drew Pearson WWII News 11:05
1945-05-06 NBCB Walter Winchell WWII News 10:43
1945-05-07 AFRS V-E Day Special Victory Program Many Stars 30:11
1945-05-07 BBC Berlin Has Fallen 0:31
1945-05-07 BBC John Snagge Announces V-E Day 1:20
1945-05-07 BBC Thomas Cadett Witnesses Nazi Surrender 1:33
1945-05-07 CBC Canada Celebrates Victory In Europe 25:29
1945-05-07 CBC Gerald Clark Germans Sign Unconditional Surrender 6:04
1945-05-07 CBS Howard K. Smith Germans Surrender 1:47
1945-05-07 CBS Noon Hour News 14:25
1945-05-07 KOIN Portland News 14:25
1945-05-07 MBS Worldwide News 14:04
1945-05-07 NBC H.V. Kaltenborn Comments On The End Of The War In Europe 13:59
1945-05-07 NBC Reports Germany Surrenders 0:27
1945-05-07 NBC V-E Day 350 United Jewish Appeal 14:49
1945-05-07 WOR Fred Van Deventer 14:04
1945-05-07 WOR News and Jimmie Fidler's Hollywood 29:18
1945-05-08 CBS 1100 News 55:46
1945-05-08 BBC Winston Churchill Speaks At Victory Party Ministry Of Health 2:48
1945-05-08 BBC God Save The King 1:02
1945-05-08 BBC H. Marshall Reports As Crowds Celebrate V-E Day 1:17
1945-05-08 BBC King George VI On Victory 0:57
1945-05-08 BBC Montgomery Remember Those Who Gave Their Lives 1:03
1945-05-08 BBC Royal Family Greets V-E Day Crowds 1:18
1945-05-08 BBC Winston Churchill Germany's Unconditional Surrender 6:31
1945-05-08 BBC Winston Churchill V-E Day Celebrations Ministry of Health Buildi… 2:58
1945-05-08 BBC Winston Churchill Announces Nazi Surrender 1:40
1945-05-08 CBC Mackenzie King Addresses The Nation 12:29
1945-05-08 CBC Paul Triquet's Victoria Cross 7:38
1945-05-08 CBS George S. Patton 3:05
1945-05-08 CBS Edward R. Murrow London Picadilly Circus Celebrations 1:54
1945-05-08 Harry Truman Announces German Surrender 0:23
1945-05-08 MBS Gabriel Heatter News Of The World 15:03
1945-05-08 NBC President Truman Proclaims Victory in Europe 19:47
1945-05-08 NBC V-E Day Proclamations And Commentary 51:52
1945-05-08 NBCB King George VI On Victory In Europe 13:50
1945-05-08 NBCB V-E Day Special Broadcast 56:33
1945-05-09 BBC Thomas Cadett Describes The Devastation Of Berlin 1:41
1945-05-09 BBC Thomas Cadett Reports From Hitler's Bunker 1:23
1945-05-09 CAN Howard K. Smith Reports On Berlin's Destruction 10:14
1945-05-10 BBC ITMA Victory In Europe Edition 26:52
1945-05-13 CBS Columbia Presents Corwin A Note of Triumph 59:04
1945-05-13 CBS World News Today 25:07
1945-05-16 NBC Story Behind The Headlines The Landing Of The Marines On Iwo Jima 14:17
1945-05-19 CBC Matthew Halton Recounts Winter Struggle In Holland 0:44
1945-05-20 CBS World News Today 24:55
1945-05-20 WMCA New World a Coming (48) The Meaning of V-E Day to Negroes 24:59
1945-05-22 BBC Wing Commander Ronald Adams Now It Can Be Told 13:46
1945-05-26 WDAF 1st Lt. Gladys Fitzgerald Army Nurse Corps 750th Evac (?) Hospi… 2:48
1945-05-27 BBC Patrick Gordon Walker Belsen Interviews 13:50
1945-05-30 NBCB Raymond Gram Swing General Eisenhower's Memorial Day order of t… 15:27
1945-05-xx 434 V-Disc A Mildred Bailey with Paul Baron & his Orchestra - Someti… 3:34
1945-05-xx 434 V-Disc B Frank Sinatra with Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra - Lampl… 5:23
1945-05-xx AFRS V-E Broadcast Generals and Fleet Admirals 56:33
1945-05-xx MBS Special Marine Broadcast 14:38
1945-06-10 George S. Patton General Patton speech Los Angeles 13:55
1945-06-12 Dwight D. Eisenhower Guildhall Address London 11:22
1945-06-15 NHK The Zero Hour Hosted By Orphan Anne (Iva Toguri) 50:19
1945-06-16 NBC Alex Dreier's Weekly News Analysis 5th Fleet Attacks Tokyo 14:12
1945-06-18 CBS Wings Over Jordan Interrupted 2:23
1945-06-18 NBC Eisenhower Addresses Joint Session of Congress 26:49
1945-06-20 NBC News With Robert St. John 11:41
1945-06-22 NBC Ben Grauer Reports On Eisenhower's Homecoming 29:41
1945-06-23 NBC Rupert Hughes Commentary 13:57
1945-06-24 CBS We The People Red Cross Volunteer 29:39
1945-06-xx 443 V-Disc A & B Al Goodman and his Orchestra - Up In Central Park M… 10:04
1945-06-xx 444 V-Disc A Mildred Bailey - Which Of The Great 48 Are You From? 3:21
1945-06-xx 450 V-Disc A Martha Tilton Paul Weston & his Orchestra - I Should Ca… 6:06
1945-06-xx 450 V-Disc B Andy Russell - Negra Consentida & Betty Hutton - Stuff … 5:22
1945-06-xx 452 V-Disc A The Andrews Sisters - Three Calalleros & Victory Polka 4:17
1945-06-xx 452 V-Disc B The Mills Brothers - You Tell Me Your Dream & Cielito L… 5:23
1945-06-xx VOA First Marine Division A Love Note To Tokyo Rose 1:37
1945-06-xx WTIC Bob Steele Interviews Cpl. Charles Connor & Cpl. Henry Eaststri… 3:33
1945-xx-xx WTIC The War Goes On U.S.S. Franklin Survivors Alfred E. Amos of Har… 13:18
1945-07-03 NBC News Of The World 14:41
1945-07-08 BBC London Column 13:26
1945-07-08 CBS World News Today 25:07
1945-07-17 The French Radio The Liberation Of Paris Orson Welles 28:24
1945-07-20 WOWO Lazy Listening Time 8:19
1945-07-22 CBS World News Today 25:35
1945-07-28 MBS Reports Army Bomber Crashes Into Empire State Building 5:54
1945-07-29 CBS World News Today 25:13
1945-07-29 Truman Speaks Of Japanese Rejection Of U.S. Ultimatum 0:30
1945-07-xx 462 V-Disc A Vaughn Monroe & His Orchestra - There I've Said It Agai… 4:57
1945-07-xx 462 V-Disc B Charlie Spivak & His Orchestra - You Belong To My Heart 3:19
1945-07-xx 465 V-Disc A Ginny Simms - Please Don't Say No 3:09
1945-07-xx 465 V-Disc A Terry Fischer - We'll Be Together Again 2:30
1945-07-xx 465 V-Disc B Mills Brothers - Lazy River 2:21
1945-07-xx 466 V-Disc B Harry James - Too Marvelous For Words 3:16
1945-07-xx 467 V-Disc A Frank Sinatra - When Your Lover Has Gone & Falling In L… 5:33
1945-07-xx 467 V-Disc B Jo Stafford & Her V-Disc Boys - Baby Won't You Please C… 5:25
1945-07-xx 468 V-Disc A Artie Shaw - Cross Your Heart & When The Quail Come Bac… 6:01
1945-07-xx 470 V-DIsc B Jimmy Dorsey & His Orchestra - Jumpin' Jehosaphat 3:17
1945-07-xx 470 V-Disc A Guy Lombardo & His Orchestra - Stars In Your Eyes & El … 4:52
1945-07-xx 473 V-Disc A Carmen Cavallero & His Orchestra - Cavallero Boogie 1:35
1945-07-xx 473 V-Disc A Frankie Carle And His Orchestra - Carle Boogie 3:06
1945-07-xx 473 V-Disc B Les Brown & His Orchestra - What's The Use Of Getting S… 5:43
1945-07-xx 475 V-Disc A Benny Goodman Quintet - Let's Fall In Love 3:20
1945-07-xx 477 V-Disc A Cass Daley - Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone 1:11
1945-07-xx 477 V-Disc A Phil Harris - That's What I Like About The South 2:45
1945-07-xx 477 V-Disc B Elton Britt - Someday You'll Want Me & I'm A Convict Wi… 5:45
1945-07-xx 478 V-Disc A Louis Jordan & His Tympany 5 - Deacon Jones & I Like 'e… 4:11
1945-07-xx 478 V-Disc B The Loumell Morgan Trio - Take Me Out To The Ballgame &… 4:35
1945-07-xx 479 V-Disc A Helen Forrest & Dick Haymes - Strange As It Seems & I W… 4:56
1945-07-xx 479 V-Disc B Patty Andrews - Twilight On The Trail & Red River Valle… 4:29
1945-08-05 BBC David Lloyd James Red Cross 4:57
1945-08-05 NBCB Philco Radio Hall of Fame Landing Craft Musical 29:57
1945-08-06 Atomic Bomb Destroys Hiroshima 0:55
1945-08-06 BBC Frank Phillips Reports On Hiroshima Bombing 0:21
1945-08-06 BBC Hiroshima News Bulletin 0:12
1945-08-08 BBC Nagasaki 2:05
1945-08-08 CBS Edward R. Morrow Reports Russia Declares War On Japan 1:56
1945-08-09 BBC Group Captain Leonard Cheshire Nagasaki Witness 2:00
1945-08-09 MBS Gabriel Heatter U.S. Waits For Japan's Surrender 12:57
1945-08-09 NHK The Zero Hour Hosted By Orphan Anne (Iva Toguri) 50:50
1945-08-09 President Truman Threatens Japan With Furthur Atomic Attacks 0:26
1945-08-10 1100 NBC WEAF Japan Surrender Offer 14:07
1945-08-10 1115 NBC WEAF News announced as 1145 14:30
1945-08-10 1130 NBC WEAF Barry Cameron 14:26
1945-08-10 1145 NBC WEAF David Harum 14:19
1945-08-10 1200 NBC WEAF News At Noon Don Goddard 14:25
1945-08-10 1215 NBC WEAF Maggie's Private Wire 14:25
1945-08-10 1230 NBC WEAF From the Pacific 14:26
1945-08-10 1245 NBC WEAF The Music Room 14:47
1945-08-10 1300 NBC WEAF Mary Margaret McBride 44:35
1945-08-10 1345 NBC WEAF News Of The World 14:23
1945-08-10 1400 NBC WEAF The Guiding Light 14:32
1945-08-10 1415 NBC WEAF Today's Children 14:30
1945-08-10 1430 NBC WEAF Woman In White 14:28
1945-08-10 1445 NBC WEAF Betty Crocker Service Program 14:27
1945-08-10 1500 NBC WEAF A Woman In America 14:45
1945-08-10 1515 NBC WEAF Ma Perkins 14:16
1945-08-10 1530 NBC WEAF Pepper Young's Family 14:42
1945-08-10 1545 NBC WEAF The Right To Happiness 14:40
1945-08-10 1600 NBC WEAF Mary Noble Backstage Wife 14:13
1945-08-10 1615 NBC WEAF Stella Dallas 14:31
1945-08-10 1630 NBC WEAF Lorenzo Jones 14:55
1945-08-10 1645 NBC WEAF Young Widder Brown 14:30
1945-08-10 1700 NBC WEAF When A Girl Marries 14:33
1945-08-10 1715 NBC WEAF Portia Faces Life 14:16
1945-08-10 1730 NBC WEAF Just Plain Bill 14:31
1945-08-10 1745 NBC WEAF Front Page Farrell 14:57
1945-08-10 1800 NBC WEAF News with Lyle Van 14:41
1945-08-10 1815 NBC WEAF Serenade To America 24:38
1945-08-10 1840 NBC WEAF MGM Sports with Bill Stern 4:34
1945-08-10 1845 NBC Lowell Thomas and the News 14:36
1945-08-10 2000 NBC WEAF Highways Of Melody 29:34
1945-08-10 2130 NBC WEAF Correction Please 28:42
1945-08-10 CBS False V-J Day Report 14:23
1945-08-10 NBC News of the World 29:09
1945-08-11 BBC NBC Atlantic Spotlight Beatrice Kay 29:11
1945-08-11 NBC Alex Dreier's Weekly News Analysis 14:12
1945-08-11 NHK The Zero Hour Hosted By Orphan Anne (Iva Toguri) 52:31
1945-08-12 CBS World News Today 25:10
1945-08-12 MBS False Initial UPI Report Of Japanese Surrender 0:50
1945-08-12 NBC Story Behind The Headlines The False Peace Flash 14:05
1945-08-13 MBS Gabriel Heatter Waiting For V-J Day 14:22
1945-08-14 1830 MBS Japanese Surrender News 9:49
1945-08-14 1915-1930 MBS Japanese Surrender 12:04
1945-08-14 1945-2000 ABC Japanese Surrender 9:58
1945-08-14 2030 NBC Japanese Surrender 12:08
1945-08-14 AFRS Command Performance 187a Victory Extra 50:02
1945-08-14 CBS Columbia Presents Corwin Fourteen August 16:07
1945-08-14 CBS Live Streets Of Hollywood 3:37
1945-08-14 CBS OWI Hirohito Speech Surrendering Because Of A-Bomb 7:58
1945-08-14 CBS Reports Truman Accepts Japanese Surrender 3:54
1945-08-14 CBS Reports V-J Day Celebrations In Cinncinati 0:47
1945-08-14 CBS Robert Trout Reports End Of World War II 0:15
1945-08-14 Commentary On End of the War 5:31
1945-08-14 KMBC Live From Independence, Missouri 6:30
1945-08-14 MBS Bulletin Japan Surrenders 3:58
1945-08-14 1830 MBS Japanese Surrender News 11:45
1945-08-14 NBC Ben Grauer On V-J Day Celebrations In Times Square 4:22
1945-08-14 NBC Don Oder Reporting From Chicago 3:32
1945-08-14 NBC H.V. Kaltenborn Comments On The Japanese Surrender 5:34
1945-08-14 NBC HV Kaltenborn Reports On The End Of The War 5:27
1945-08-14 NBC VIA AP 1st Bona Fide Japanese Surrender 0:35
1945-08-14 Public Announcement V-J Day Services 0:19
1945-08-14 Reaction In Washington 0:13
1945-08-14 V-J Day Mix 17:31
1945-08-14 V-J Day Report From White House 0:32
1945-08-14 WISN Japan Surrender Celebration Milwaukee 1 58:25
1945-08-14 WISN Japan Surrender Celebration Milwaukee 2 19:55
1945-08-14 Woman Describes V-J Day Announcement 0:24
1945-08-15 AFRS Command Performance Victory Extra 1:40:19
1945-08-15 AFRS Wednesday With You V-J Day 19:17
1945-08-15 BBC British Crowd Celebrates V-J Day 1:14
1945-08-15 BBC British Crowd Sings God Save The King 0:45
1945-08-15 BBC Clement Atlee Announces The Surrender Of Japan 0:55
1945-08-15 BBC King George VI To Empire 1:00
1945-08-15 CAN Admiral Bull Halsey Message To 3rd Fleet 1:42
1945-08-15 CBS Bill Henry The Second World War Is Over 5:13
1945-08-15 KLUF Crisis In War Town Heartbreak Island 15:08
1945-08-15 MBS WOR BBC V-J Day Gene Krupa from the Hotel Astor 14:53
1945-08-15 NHK Hirohito Announces Japanese Surrender 0:11
1945-08-15 President Truman On Victory 1:03
1945-08-15 WOR Bulletin Suicide Of Japanese War Minister 0:40
1945-08-16 NBC Richard Harkness WWII News 11:19
1945-08-19 CBS World News Today 25:23
1945-08-19 NBCB Philco Radio Hall of Fame Special Day of Prayer & Thanksgiving 29:49
1945-08-26 CBS World News Today 24:50
1945-08-27 CBS Admiral Turner Okinawa Invasion 2:06
1945-08-27 CBS John Daly A Report To The Nation Excerpt 2:02
1945-08-27 Radio Moscow Victory Guns 1:04
1945-08-xx 518 V-Disc B Charlie Spivak & His Orchestra - You Go To My Head 3:51
1945-09-01 CBC Welcome Home 14:24
1945-09-01 CBS Webley Edwards On U.S.S. Missouri 3:25
1945-09-01 General MacArthur On Victory Over Japan 1:42
1945-09-02 AFRS Command Performance President Truman V-J Day Special 29:03
1945-09-02 BBC General MacArthur Announces Japan's Surrender 1:44
1945-09-02 CBS World News Today 23:34
1945-09-02 Ernie Pyle Bob Hope On The War's End 1:53
1945-09-02 Japanese Surrender Ceremony Onboard U.S.S. Missouri 32:36
1945-09-02 NBC Japanese Surrender Broadcast Recap 17:12
1945-09-02 Truman - Victory Over Japan Speech 2:04
1945-09-09 CBS World News Today 25:33
1945-09-16 CBS World News Today 25:50
1945-09-19 NBC Congressional Medal Of Honor General Jonathan Wainwright 28:25
1945-09-20 CBC J. Frank Willis A Tremendous New Force 5:27
1945-09-20 NBCB Between the Bookends Letters from Servicemen 13:40
1945-09-20 Orphan Anne Performs Mock Sign-Off For U.S. Newsreels 0:19
1945-09-20 Orphan Anne Performs Mock Sign-On For U.S. Newsreels 0:56
1945-09-23 ABC Lear Radio Show 01 - Prophecy 14:13
1945-09-23 CBS World News Today 24:55
1945-09-29 SYN Victory Chest Program 1945 Victory Drive Edward G. Robinson 13:56
1945-09-xx 504 V-Disc A Maj Glenn Miller & the Band Of The AAF Training Command… 5:50
1945-09-xx 504 V-Disc B Woody Herman & his Orchestra - A Kiss Goodnight & North… 6:31
1945-09-xx 506 V-Disc B Connie Boswell & her V-Disc Play-Fellows - Good-Night S… 5:28
1945-09-xx BBC Harold Osmond le Druillenec Belsen Survivor 1:42
1945-09-xx SYN Victory Chest Program 1945 Victory Drive Orson Welles 14:20
1945-10-15 NBC William F. Halsey and 3rd Fleet Return to U.S.A. 13:54
1945-10-22 WCOP Quoting America Labor Strikes 13:09
1945-10-23 WCOP Quoting America Nuremberg War Trials 13:18
1945-10-24 BBC Edward Stettinius United Nations Conference 0:53
1945-10-27 Harry S. Truman Navy Day Speech, NYC 26:58
1945-10-28 NBC Story Behind The Headlines The French Elections 14:06
1945-10-xx 517 V-Disc A Paul Whiteman Orchestra - Gershwin Piano Concerto 1st &… 5:42
1945-10-xx 517 V-Disc B Oscar Levant - Gershwin Piano Preludes 2 & 3 3:29
1945-10-xx 518 V-Disc A Harry James - September In The Rain & 920 Special 6:02
1945-10-xx 521 V-Disc A Morton Gould Orchestra - Jungle Drums & Casey Jones 4:42
1945-10-xx 521 V-Disc B Frank Sinatra - Stars In Your Eyes & My Shawl 6:05
1945-10-xx 522 V-Disc A Capt Glenn Miller & The 418th AAF Band - St. Louis Blues 4:28
1945-10-xx 522 V-Disc B Sam Donahue & The Navy Dance Band - Dinah 4:18
1945-10-xx 524 V-Disc A Mildred Bailey with Red Norvo & his Orchestra - Downhea… 5:10
1945-10-xx 524 V-Disc B Martha Tilton & her V-Disc Play-Fellows - Beyond The Bl… 4:33
1945-10-xx 525 V-Disc A Louis Prima - Please Don't Squeeze The Bananas & I Walk… 5:40
1945-10-xx 525 V-Disc B Bing Crosby - Medley From Waikiki Wedding 6:14
1945-10-xx 526 V-Disc A Mills Brothers - I Wish 3:13
1945-10-xx 526 V-Disc A Mills Brothers - Put Another Chair At The Table 3:21
1945-10-xx 526 V-Disc A Mills Brothers - Till Then 2:52
1945-10-xx 526 V-Disc B Andrews Sisters - Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy 2:18
1945-10-xx 526 V-Disc B Mitchell Ayres Orchestra - Home 3:29
1945-10-xx 528 V-Disc B Machito & his Afro-Cubans - Almendra & Tra-La-La 5:09
1945-10-xx 530 V-Disc A The Page Cavanaugh Trio - When The Gooses Come Back To … 4:02
1945-10-xx 530 V-Disc B Swing & Sway With Sammy Kaye - Baia 3:38
1945-11-03 CBS Report To The Nation John Daly 30:16
1945-11-04 BBC Sgt Frank Foster On Building The Burma Railway 1:22
1945-11-08 BBC Reginald Watson-Jones In Honour Of Russia 5:31
1945-11-10 KQW Story of KQW Jack Webb 28:11
1945-11-14 Göring, Hess & Ribbentrop Plead Not-Guilty At Nuremberg 0:23
1945-11-xx BBC William Joyce Lord Haw Haw Dismissal Of Appeal 3:32
1945-12-06 Bing Crosby Victory Bond Show 27:15
1945-12-09 ABC Lear Radio Show Doris Miller Tribute (excerpt) 3:42
1945-12-09 Judy Garland - Look for the Silver Lining Jerome Kern Memorial Broad… 3:20
1945-12-15 Slim Gaillard Quartette - Atomic Cocktail 2:41
1945-12-18 AFRS Bob Hope Christmas Show From San Francisco A 30:36
1945-12-18 AFRS Bob Hope Christmas Show From San Francisco B 22:14
1945-12-24 AFRS Command Performance 1945 Christmas Special 2:03:02
1945-12-25 AFRS Command Performance Christmas Special 1:00:19
1945-12-25 MBS In Review - 1945 In Review 59:21
1945-12-25 WJR Stump Us 14:11
1945-12-30 AFRS The Fred Allen Show Duke Ellington pre-emption 28:46
1945-12-31 AFRS New Year's Eve Radio Dance Party 1:00:04
1945-xx-XX BBC - General Forces Programme ID 0:28
1945-xx-XX BBC - General Overseas Service ID 0:11
1945-xx-xx Nelson Eddy, Cass Dailey, Andrews Sisters - Indian Love Call Medley … 2:50
1945-xx-xx KFI Ad Club of Los Angeles WWII Recap 13:02
1945-xx-xx Peggy Lee & June Christy - Swinging On A Star 2:45
1945-xx-xx Radio Bremen - ID & Interval Signal 1:32
1945-xx-xx Radio Hamburg- ID & Interval Signal 0:11
1945-xx-xx Radio Herrijzend Nederland - ID External Service 0:32
1945-xx-xx Radio Munich DL2RBY - ID 1:11
1945-xx-xx Slim Gaillard Quartet - Laguna 2:44
1945-xx-xx Stan Kenton with June Christy - Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams 2:10
19xx-xx-xx Tokyo Rose Describes Her Show 0:54

Reviews

Great clips! Are they public domain by any chance?


(5 stars)

These are all amazing clips - thank you for uploading them! I'm currently doing research for a documentary about the Battle of Iwo Jima, and the clips from February and March of '45 are so enlightening! I'd love to be able to use them in the documentary if at all possible. Do you know whether they (especially 15 through 21) are public domain? Or, if not, might you know who owns the rights to them, or how to find out? Any information in that regard would be greatly appreciated. I can be reached at bsswrap@gmail.com Thanks again!

Outstanding! Thanks for Posting


(5 stars)

Our host has done a marvelous thing! Wowser! I'm listening to an Admiral refrigerator commercial with a tag to save paper for the war effort. That's one small example. I'm struck by the literate, conversational manner of Douglas Edwards. It's not to clipped gotta-say-it-fast five minutes of news we get now. Love those 15 minute newscasts. There is a local station here that actually reports a 15 minute newscast, complete with funeral announcements. It is rare. We have lost a LOT by having to cut down the news today. Again, thanks for sharing. If you have more, please post more.

Reference lost on me


(5 stars)

In Norman Corwin's "On A Note Of Triumph" (1945-05-13), there's a particularly dramatic passage beginning at 38:40 where different voices are frantically shouting lessons that we've learned from World War II. One of them is, "We’ve learned that a newspaper with a big circulation right at home can lie with a straight face seven days a week and be as filthy and fascist as a handout in Berlin!" I'd love to know which newspaper Corwin was referring to. So far I haven't been able to turn up anything.

Something off here


(3 stars)

Listening to Hitler's last recorded broadcast, there is no screaming, no fervor, no nothing. By this time, he was a shell of his former self. He was heavily medicated, suffering from a host of ailments. In less than 5 months, he would be dead and the war in Europe over.

1945 Radio News


(5 stars)

Great selection of news broadcasts. One correction though, the CBS World News dated April 5, 1945 should actually be April 15. It was the day FDR was buried, he died on the 12th and was buried on the 15th.

It's like I'm in 1945


(4.5 stars)

Nice