The run
- Network
- Syndicated
- Years active
- 1942–1945
- Surviving broadcasts
- 40
- Genre
- news
Soldiers of the Press is a war drama that was created in New York and syndicated by World Broadcasting System. Little is known about the series or the total number of episodes. Each episode is 15 minutes long and retold a recent news story from action during World War II. The series was narrated by United Press correspondents including Walter Cronkite, Harrison Salisbury, and many lesser knowns such as Ralph Teasdale and Ann Stringer. The show was broadcast on WOR from 28 Feb 1943 until 5 Aug 1945 on Sundays at 12:30pm. There are at least 39 episodes in circulation out of the 148 known to exist. NOTE: Updated…
Source collection
Old Time Radio Researchers Group
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
11 dated broadcasts across 4 years on the air. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1942, in original transmission order.
- 1. Henry Gorrell Bombing of Navarino Bay · 9 Nov 1942
- 2. Joe James Custer Pacific Fleet · 30 Nov 1942
- 3. Frank Hewlett Fall of Bataan · 28 Dec 1942
Henry Gorrell Bombing of Navarino Bay
9 Nov 1942 · 13 min
Broadcast 9 November 1942. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Joe James Custer Pacific Fleet
30 Nov 1942 · 12 min
Broadcast 30 November 1942. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Frank Hewlett Fall of Bataan
28 Dec 1942 · 14 min
Broadcast 28 December 1942. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Leo Disher A Letter To Mrs Marshall
22 Feb 1943 · 13 min
Broadcast 22 February 1943. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Robert Vermillion Atlantic Convoy
16 May 1943 · 12 min
Broadcast 16 May 1943. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Reynolds Packard Battle Boomerang
5 Dec 1943 · 12 min
Broadcast 5 December 1943. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Frank Hewlett Merrill's Raiders
30 Apr 1944 · 11 min
Broadcast 30 April 1944. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Joan Younger The Return Of The Soldier
17 Sep 1944 · 11 min
Broadcast 17 September 1944. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Also on Syndicated
Syndicated in 1942–1945
Other series the network carried while Soldiers of the Press was on the air.
Same seasons
news on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
The broadcast desk
Wartime correspondence and Cavalcade of America established the daily explainer and the narrated history hour long before either had a feed.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
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