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Proudly We Hail

CBS

CBS · 1946–1957

656 EpisodesWeeklyPGSince 1946

The run

Network
CBS
Years active
1946–1957
Surviving broadcasts
656
Genre
docudrama

Proudly We Hail was a public service show for the Army and Air Force that first aired for a period of four months in 1941 on CBS. The show returned to the airways from 1946 through 1957 and aired on as many as 1300 radio stations. The 1941 shows were billed as a program designed "to strengthen the mainstream of the defense machine – the workers in the arsenal of democracy – during a time of unlimited national emergency". This was the time of the buildup of tensions in the Far East and just prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Major Bowes and Jane Froman kicked off the first 30 minute show on the CBS network…

1955 · 11954 · 11953 · 21952 · 11951 · 11950 · 11949 · 21948 · 11947 · 11946 · 1

Source collection

Old Time Radio Researchers Group

Rights

Public domain — no renewed US copyright

Cataloguing

Air dates and notes from the Archive item record

Every broadcast below carries its own provenance sheet — transfer quality, file source and rights.Archive record: OTRR_Proudly_We_Hail_Singles

The shape of the run

What survives, year by year

12 dated broadcasts across 12 years on the air, with 2 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.

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Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording

Episodes

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Listen to the run in order

Restored broadcasts from 1946, in original transmission order.

  1. 1. PWH (Audition) Repercussion (With Clark Gable) [T] · 10 Jul 1946
  2. 2. PWH The Lily Packs A Wallop [T] · 15 Jan 1947
  3. 3. PWH A Day In Connecticut · 14 Mar 1948
  • 01

    PWH (Audition) Repercussion (With Clark Gable) [T]

    10 Jul 1946 · 15 min

    Broadcast 10 July 1946. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.

  • 02

    PWH The Lily Packs A Wallop [T]

    15 Jan 1947 · 15 min

    Broadcast 15 January 1947. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.

  • 03

    PWH A Day In Connecticut

    14 Mar 1948 · 28 min

    Broadcast 14 March 1948. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.

  • 04

    PWH 134 [Series G 017] The Meadow Lark [T]

    30 Jan 1949 · 29 min

    Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Proudly_We_Hail_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.

  • 05

    PWH 062 [Series G 062] Once To Every Man [T]

    11 Dec 1949 · 28 min

    Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Proudly_We_Hail_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.

  • 06

    PWH 115 The Other Wise Man [T]

    17 Dec 1950 · 29 min

    Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Proudly_We_Hail_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.

  • 07

    PWH 158 Lady On The Run [T]

    14 Oct 1951 · 29 min

    Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Proudly_We_Hail_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.

  • 08

    PWH 194 Flight To Freedom

    22 Jun 1952 · 29 min

    Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Proudly_We_Hail_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.

Same night on the air

10 Jul 1946

Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 10 Jul 1946.

Myrt & Marge
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Myrt & Marge

M&M 1946-07-10 #073 Marge Gets Her Big Chance

10 Jul 1946 · 11 min

Originally broadcast on CBS, 10 July 1946. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).

The Phil Harris - Alice Faye Show
The Phil Harris - Alice Faye Show cover art
The Phil Harris - Alice Faye Show

Phil Harris 46-07-10 (000) Audition Show

10 Jul 1946 · 32 min

Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).

Also on CBS

CBS in 1946–1957

Other series the network carried while Proudly We Hail was on the air.

Same seasons

docudrama on the air then

Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.

What it became

The state at the microphone

Programmes made to explain a war, a policy, or a country to its own citizens. The Voice of the Army and Your Army Air Forces are public information as broadcast craft.

Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.

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