RADIO SOUNDS OF WW II AT HOME

Originally broadcast on WNMP
Saturday, May 30, 1970

DINAH SHORE SHOW (1-15-43) Armed Forces Radio rebroadcast for servicemen with Dinah, Gordon Jenkins and the orchestra and announcer Truman Bradley. Program is dedicated “to the fellas in the service… selected by the girls back home.”

HITLER’S MOCK BIRTHDAY PARTY (4-20-42) The Treasury Department turns Herr Hitler’s 54th  birthday into an occasion to sell United States War Bonds at a rally in Times Square, New York.

BOB HOPE SHOW (1945) Bob entertains the troops from the deck of the Battleship South Dakota in San Francisco Harbor.

USO SATURDAY MATINEE (1942) Glenn Miller and the orchestra broadcasting from, the Café Rouge of the Hotel Pennsylvania in New York. Featured are Tex Beneke, the Modernaires, Ray Eberly and Marian Hutton.

PLUS – clips featuring Abbott and Costello and Irving Berlin.