The World War 2 Radio Podcast Brick Pickle Media LLC

Today we have the June 29, 1944, edition of the NBC News of the World. It includes analysis and updates on the war from Normandy, London, Chicago and New York.

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Today we have the June 25, 1944, edition of CBS World News Today. It includes analysis and updates on the war from Normandy, London, Rome, Chicago, Pearl Harbor, Washington and New York.

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Today we have “High Command” an episode of “Four for the Fifth.” This was one of a series of specials produced by Arch Oboler and William M. Robson, two of the leading radio writers of the day, to promote the Fifth War Bond Drive. The series was produced and syndicated by the U.S. Treasury Department, so was broadcast at various times and stations across the country, and was first released
this week in 1944.

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Today we have a U.S. Treasury Department special for the Fifth War Bond Drive. It’s a mix of entertainment and information urging Americans to buy war bonds. It aired over the Blue Network, the forerunner of what we know today as ABC, on June 19, 1944.


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Today we have a roundup of a few short news updates from June 16, 1944, as the fighting continued in Europe following D-Day. First, we have a report from Joseph Harsch on the Nazi’s new weapon – what we would come
to know as the V-1 rocket – which had been launched against London for the first time on June 13. That is followed by a brief CBS update from the Normandy front. Our final segment is a BBC broadcast for a Canadian audience, interviewing five Canadian servicemen who were wounded at Normandy.


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Today we have President Franklin Roosevelt’s Fireside Chat of June 12, 1944, as he discusses the progress of the war and promotes the opening of the Fifth War Bond Drive.


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