Sounds of World War II, 1939-1945 PRO

Sounds of World War II, 1939-1945

A piece of the World War II in your hands.

Includes:

- World War II music: 12 hours. Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra, Perry Como, Dinah Shore, Tony Pastor, Kate Smith, Lena Horne, Freddy Martin & his Orchestra, Glenn Miller, and much more.

- 113 wartime Speeches Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill wartime speeches.

- D.Day Complete Broadcasts. One hears in 'real time', moment by moment, the actual breaking news of the June 6 1944 D-Day landings--the beginning of the invasion of Europe by Allied Forces--just as Columbia Broadcasting System studios on the other side of the Atlantic received it.

From rumor to the first and accurate reports by Naz* wireless broadcasts, to shortwave radio news crossing the Atlantic, to the official Allied announcement of invasion, this cataclysmic and momentous WWII event unfolds to us hour by hour with a frisson and thrill. Even from hindsight, we experience those extraordinary events with surprise and excitement, as did those Columbia Broadcasting System reporters who experienced them firsthand over sixty-five years ago.

- Norman Corwin´s One World Flight. To help heal the wounds of WWII, this series chronicles Norman Corwin's four-month travels in 1947 and his recorded interviews of different peoples' perspective around the world.

As an important public service program as One World Flight was, as well as great radio programming, the newtork chose to air the program on Tuesday nights, opposite Bob Hope, a death-watch time slot.

Shows included:

1 - ntroduction to One World Flight

2 - Great Britain

3 - Western Europe

4 - Sweden and Poland

5 - Czechoslovakia

6 - Italy

7 - Egypt and India

8 - India, Shanghai and Other Far Eastern Cities

9 - The Phillipines

10 - Australia

11 - New Zealand

12 - Final Summary