The Voice of the Army
AFRS / War Department
AFRS / War Department · 1948–1948
49 EpisodesFortnightlyPGSince 1948
The run
- Network
- AFRS / War Department
- Years active
- 1948–1948
- Surviving broadcasts
- 49
- Genre
- variety
The Voice of the Army was produced by the US War Department and carried by stations across the country during the Second World War, mixing military bands, guest performers and reports from training camps and the fronts. As US Government work it is in the public domain; this run is digitised at the Internet Archive as “TheVoiceOfTheArmy”.
Source collection
Internet Archive audio collections
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
0 dated broadcasts across 1 years on the air, with 1 year where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from NaN, in original transmission order.
- 1. xx-xxAfrsVoiceOfTheArmy213NamesOnTheListHelenHayes · Date unknown
- 2. xx-xxAfrsVoiceOfTheArmy304HollowVictory · Date unknown
- 3. xx-xxAfrsVoiceOfTheArmy348MusicallySpeaking · Date unknown
xx-xxAfrsVoiceOfTheArmy213NamesOnTheListHelenHayes
Date unknown · 14 min
Public-domain transfer from the Internet Archive item “TheVoiceOfTheArmy”.
xx-xxAfrsVoiceOfTheArmy304HollowVictory
Date unknown · 14 min
Public-domain transfer from the Internet Archive item “TheVoiceOfTheArmy”.
xx-xxAfrsVoiceOfTheArmy348MusicallySpeaking
Date unknown · 15 min
Public-domain transfer from the Internet Archive item “TheVoiceOfTheArmy”.
xxAfrsVoiceOfTheArmy432SymphonyInSongJohnnyDesmond
Date unknown · 15 min
Public-domain transfer from the Internet Archive item “TheVoiceOfTheArmy”.
xx-xxAfrsVoiceOfTheArmy417AngelsOfMercyGloriaSwanson
Date unknown · 15 min
Public-domain transfer from the Internet Archive item “TheVoiceOfTheArmy”.
xx-xxAfrsVoiceOfTheArmy426WestPointAlbumMiltonCross
Date unknown · 15 min
Public-domain transfer from the Internet Archive item “TheVoiceOfTheArmy”.
xx-xxAfrsVoiceOfTheArmy438MostlyMusicTheMariners
Date unknown · 14 min
Public-domain transfer from the Internet Archive item “TheVoiceOfTheArmy”.
xx-xxAfrsVoiceOfTheArmy444TheStarSpangledBannerJohnnyMackBrown
Date unknown · 14 min
Public-domain transfer from the Internet Archive item “TheVoiceOfTheArmy”.
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