V-DISCS AND WORLD WAR II
A 50th Anniversary Salute

Originally broadcast on WNIB
Saturday, July 3, 1993

The War Department’s V-Disc program of providing specially recorded musical entertainment to our troops around the world began in the Summer of 1943.  To observe the occasion, Nostalgia Digest columnist KARL PEARSON joins us for an afternoon of musical history and memories.  Among the seldom-heard V-Disc selections to be presented are those recorded by Hal McIntyre, Glenn Miller, Eddy Howard, Benny Goodman Quartet, Louis Prima, Bing Crosby with Tommy Dorsey, Frank Sinatra, Spike Jones, Ethel Merman and Connee Boswell.

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ONE MAN’S FAMILY (12-6-50) Book 81, Chapter 8.

ONE MAN’S FAMILY (12-7-50) Book 81, Chapter 9.