1944 Radio News


(4.7 stars; 9 reviews)

Explore the news from 1944 in this collection. This compilation includes various news segments and V-Discs from that year, providing a glimpse into the past.

While these files may not all be available on archive.org, this collection aims to preserve and share the historical context of the time. Any errors or typos in the content are the responsibility of the curator.


This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.

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The Fall Of Ortona 5:11
Amazing Examples of Allied Power 14:09
January 9, 1944 24:20
January 16, 1944 24:31
Will Hitler Survive This War? 14:01
January 23, 1944 25:27
Wynford Vaughn Thomas In Anzio 1:06
February 26, 1944 12:32
800 Planes Attack Frankfort 13:50
January 30, 1944 24:18
Honouring The Living And The Dead 4:50
Message 0:11
Pistol Packin' Mama 3:29
Redman Blues 4:46
New San Antonio Rose 2:34
San Antonio Rose 2:31
The Train Song 3:01
The Music Stopped 2:51
I Couldn't Sleep A Wink Last Night 2:53
The Way You Look Tonight 2:34
Contrast 1:52
Julia 2:30
Jimmy Dorsey & his Orchestra - John Silver 4:06
As Time Goes By 2:38
Barstool Cowboy 2:25
Hotcha Cornia 2:18
Jungle Town 2:13
Moonlight Bay 2:59
Ridin' Herd On A Cloud 2:00
Come Back To Sorrento 2:22
I Used To Love You But It's All Over Now 2:31
February 5, 1944 0:49
Skelly News Of The World 14:58
NBC War Telescope French Underground Leader 14:12
February 6, 1944 24:45
NBC War Bond Parade 54:26
Uncle Sam Presents Glenn Miller AEF Band 14:44
Britain Is a Fortress 14:07
February 20, 1944 24:25
A European View of the War 13:54
February 27, 1944 24:51
February 29, 1944 14:34
The Great Speckled … 4:17
The Honey Song & Don't … 5:04
A Yank In a Tank 1:19
Please 3:06
What Do You Do In the Infantry? 2:18
Sleep, Kentucky Babe 2:07
Rock Me 2:40
That's All 1:58
Rock Daniel 2:31
Trouble In… 2:33
Something Sentimental 3:02
Scrap Your Fat 4:24
Easter Parade 3:18
Carnival Of Venice 2:27
Ciribiribin 2:27
The Blue Danube 8:18
Can't Get Stuff In Your… 4:16
February 1, 1944 4:42
Men on the Front Line 14:18
March 5, 1944 24:15
Mairzy Doats 2:38
March 12, 1944 24:51
Glenn Miller AEF Band 15:10
NBC War Telescope Targets Bombed in Southern Germany 13:50
March 19, 1944 24:31
C.S. Lewis Personality 14:04
A Night In A Foxhole 14:28
Soldiers See Movies 29:32
March 26, 1944 24:59
Wynford Vaughn-Thomas Reports On The Spearhead 1:57
Men Of Ohio 2:01
Military District of Washington Band 2:01
Old Soldiers Never Die 2:12
Our Bugler 2:08
Tail End Charlie 2:34
The Squadron Song 2:27
Blue Champagne 1:53
Don't Be That Way 1:52
Nursery Rhymes 2:35
Message 0:26
The Charms of the City Ain't Fer Me 2:04
Pins and Needles 2:48
Two Wings 2:30
We'll Anchor Bye and Bye 1:55
Message 1:05
Ring Dem Golden Bells 3:23
How Sweet You Are 3:13
Message 0:20
Adios Mariquita Linda 3:33
Boston Symphony Orchestra - Berlioz 3:52
Boston Symphony Orchestra - Schubert 3:52
V-Disc B 5:50
NRK News Of Norway 2:13
A Decorated Fighter Pilot 13:44
April 2, 1944 24:44
Army Day Sing Along with the Landt Trio 14:31
April 8, 1944 14:25
NBC War Telescope Invasion Exercises 14:18
Germany Calling We Are Waiting for You 4:37
Springtime At Anzio 1:42
Tensions in Britain Increase as Invasion Nears 14:27
The Grape Nuts & Grape Nuts Flakes Program 28:01
Long Ago (And Far Away) 3:27
U.S. Planes in U.K. Practice Bomb Runs 14:14
I Sustain The Wings 29:30
The Bombing of the Pescara Dam 13:56
May 13, 1944 14:58
The Hills Of Hell 4:35
May 14, 1944 24:43
BBC Godfrey Talbot in Monte Cassino 1:53
CBS Report To The Nation The Italian Front 29:18
NBC War Telescope The Zimmerman Twins 13:53
May 21, 1944 24:43
Breaking The Hitler Line 4:27
I Never Mentioned Your Name 1:53
They're Either Too Young Or Too Old 1:51
There's a Flame Still Burning 3:33
Besame Mucho 2:28
General Kell's March 3:40
K-K-K-Katie & Rack Up 3:41
Suddenly It's Spring 4:07
I'll Get By & Arkansas 4:10
May 1, 1944 5:37
Uncle Sam Blues 4:23
CBS Used Fats Reminder 0:28
Robin Duff On Sealed Ship 0:41
A Great Daylight Air Raid 13:50
Frank Gillard on Build Up to D-Day 0:43
June 5, 1944 1:04
BBC Field Marshall Montgomery Address On Eve Of D-Day 0:53
BBC Godfrey Talbot Address On Eve Of D-Day 1:16
June 5, 1944 0:47
BBC Rome Welcomes the Allies 1:15
Eisenhower Pre D-Day Announcement to Troops 1:42
FDR Fireside Chat 14:11
June 6, 1944 6:02
Harry James, Kitty Kallen Interrupted 2:54
Unconfirmed Reports Of Invasion 11:39
June 6, 1944 0:55
June 6, 1944 46:41
D-Day Broadcast 23:28
June 6, 1944 12:37
June 6, 1944 42:48
June 6, 1944 16:45
June 6, 1944 46:24
June 6, 1944 46:41
June 6, 1944 1:43
June 6, 1944 6:52
D-Day Broadcast 41:57
June 6, 1944 15:11
Valiant Lady - Buy War Bonds 2:24
Light Of The World 13:16
Prayer For Our Troops 13:44
Romance Of Helen Trent 29:06
June 6, 1944 43:09
June 6, 1944 4:55
June 6, 1944 22:35
June 6, 1944 15:09
The New Adventures Of Perry Mason 13:51
King George VI On D-Day 8:31
June 6, 1944 30:17
June 6, 1944 16:54
June 6, 1944 11:49
D-Day Broadcast 30:03
Passing Parade 14:01
Dr Goldstein And Ginny Simms 29:36
D-Day Broadcast 42:47
D-Day Prayer 6:50
June 6, 1944 2:28
June 6, 1944 6:02
Fred Waring And His Pennsylvanians 19:06
D-Day Coverage 13:53
Everything for the Boys 30:43
June 6, 1944 0:55
Alan Melville Sees Paratroops 0:23
BBC Allied Troops Prayer Before Invasion 0:30
BBC British Tank Crew Describes Beach Landing 0:25
BBC Chester Wilmot Reports From Inside British Glider 0:33
Chester Wilmot Sees Gliders 0:26
Colin Wills Lands With Infantry 0:26
Dwight D. Eisenhower Message to Western Europe 0:29
George Hicks on USS Ancon part 1 5:02
George Hicks on USS Ancon part 2 4:45
June 6, 1944 4:35
BBC Guy Byam Parachutes Into France 0:34
D-Day Has Come 0:37
D-Day Has Come 0:37
June 6, 1944 0:44
June 6, 1944 0:28
Five Minutes Before H-Hour 0:33
Robin Duff Mid-Channel To Normandy 0:26
The 13th Man To Land In France 0:13
June 6, 1944 0:22
CAN A Handful Of French Sand 0:45
CAN Channel Journey On U.S. Torpedo Boat 0:42
June 6, 1944 0:45
June 6, 1944 0:59
CAN Nighttime Convoy Anti-Aircraft Attack 0:39
CAN Recounting The Landing 0:21
CAN Reports From The Beachhead 0:18
June 6, 1944 0:39
The Scene On The Beach 2:09
Travelling With D-Day Convoy 0:26
CAN U.S. Soldier On The Beach 0:27
Matthew Halton Welcomed By French Civilians 0:39
CBS Columbia Presents Corwin Sandburg 29:34
June 6, 1944 14:49
D-Day 14:08
June 6, 1944 14:09
D-Day 2:25
June 6, 1944 14:34
June 6, 1944 5:18
D-Day Prayer 29:36
D-Day Special 14:01
D-Day Message To Free French Troops 0:17
Eisenhower D-Day Broadcast to Western Europe 3:48
June 6, 1944 3:10
Who's On First? 18:19
June 6, 1944 14:34
NBC Cross-Country Reaction to D-Day 29:18
Poem & Prayer For Invasion 15:02
June 6, 1944 14:34
Creeps by Night: The Three Sisters 25:56
George Hicks From The Deck Of USS Ancon 1:11
George Hicks Reports From USS Ancon 13:29
U.S. D-Day Bulletin On Landing Success 0:13
June 7, 1944 14:46
Big Sister 13:48
Romance Of Helen Trent 14:39
Portia Faces Life 13:51
June 7, 1944 13:54
June 7, 1944 14:03
June 7, 1944 0:30
June 7, 1944 1:52
Larry Meyer First Eyewitness Report 12:22
D-Day 29:48
Music from the House of Squibb 14:30
Sgt. Hadman 1:17
June 8, 1944 1:12
Troop Ship Sinks 1:50
CAN Recounting The Landing 0:21
CAN U.S. Soldier On The Beach 0:27
Witness To D-Day 13:43
D-Day 14:34
CBS Mention Of The Filthy 13 0:56
Eyewitness Report 5:18
Case History Of Edgar Lowndes 30:09
Bing Crosby Kraft Music Hall 24:23
CAN AP Ruth Cowan Reports On Hospitals 4:48
June 9, 1944 12:56
June 9, 1944 4:33
June 10, 1944 1:29
A Statement on D-Day 25:58
Richard Dimbleby Reports Flying Over Normandy 1:48
Words At War D-Day 5th War Bond Drive Special 11:45
BBC Melville On Churchbell Carillon In Normandy 1:24
Wounded Soldiers Speak 8:58
A Friend To Alexander 31:04
The Meaning Of The News 3:30
Frank Gillard Takes Cover 0:28
Four for the Fifth: Surrender 29:16
Wings Over Jordan Interrupted 15:11
June 18, 1944 25:16
June 19, 1944 29:17
June 20, 1944 0:39
Indians In D-Day 10:11
Pistol Packin' Mama 3:18
Four for the Fifth 29:27
June 25, 1944 24:56
June 1, 1944 4:33
June 1, 1944 4:24
Take The 5:31
Flamingo 3:22
Four for the Fifth 30:34
July 2, 1944 25:38
Héroïsme Des Soldats Canadiens à Carpiquet 0:29
The Battle For Carpiquet 8:09
Herbert On The Bombing Of Caen 1:10
Four for the Fifth 30:34
Frank Gillard Reports Near Caen 0:35
We Deliver The Goods 31:30
Chester Wilmot Reports Near Caen 1:03
Your Army Service Forces 28:54
Dawn Patrol 7:22
July 14, 1944 28:54
Frank Singiser And The News 14:47
BBC General Warlimont Hitler Bomb Witness 7:51
July 20, 1944 1:02:03
July 20, 1944 34:39
July 20, 1944 1:02:58
Adolf Hitler Attentat Contre Hitler 0:28
Adolf Hitler On July 20th Assassination Attempt 0:47
Radio Paris Attentat Contre Hitler 0:28
July 23, 1944 24:57
Axis Sally German Overseas Service 50:03
July 30, 1944 25:18
Wagon Wheels 3:33
TD Chant 3:38
The Major And The Minor 3:47
I Wonder Boogie 4:39
August 6, 1944 25:00
Judge Roland Freisler Shouts At Coup Defendant Ervin von Witzleben 0:20
Bob Hope Broadcast from South Pacific 13:09
August 13, 1944 24:55
NHK Orphan Anne Sign-On 0:46
The Zero Hour Hosted By Orphan Anne 28:23
The Zero Hour Hosted By Orphan Anne 17:07
August 20, 1944 24:47
SYN Treasury Salute Major Greg 14:09
CBS This Changing World 14:43
Radio Blyskawica Poland Clandestine Radio Interval Signal ID 2:31
Richard Wessel On The Liberation Of Paris 1:36
Robert Reid Describes The Scenes In Paris 0:54
Notre Dame Bells Ring Freedom In France 0:38
The Liberation Of Paris 2:13
Le Général De Gaulle à L'Hôtel De Ville 0:12
Los parisinos cantan la Marsellesa el Dia de la Liberacion 0:37
The Liberation Of Paris 3:20
Robert Reid On DeGaulle Assassination Attempt 1:38
August 27, 1944 24:54
Rodgers & Hart Medley 5:41
The Mood To Be Wooed 5:02
My Little Brown Book 3:11
That Old Black Magic 3:42
August 1944 3:14
Comin' Around The Corner 4:19
Flying Home 4:16
Out Of This World & Goos 6:31
Mildred Bailey with Benny Goodman & his V-Disc All-Star 3:11
Plink, Plank, & Plunk - Salt Peanuts 3:24
I Feel So Good & Tell Me Baby 5:41
No Name Jive 5:26
I Was Here When You Left … 4:07
Chester Wilmot On Road Outside Brussels 1:06
September 3, 1944 25:35
Homefront Fashion Tips 1:02
September 10, 1944 25:14
The Zero Hour Hosted By Orphan Anne 30:36
Getting To Know Britain 28:43
BBC Announces The Invasion Of Holland 0:13
Montgomery Addresses His Troops 1:23
Edward R. Murrow Counts Parachutes In Holland 1:02
Food Arrives 1:59
September 20, 1944 1:57
Stanley Maxted Reports As Supplies Drop Over Hartenstein 1:08
Robert Robbertson Reports On Arnhem 0:34
FDR Teamsters Union Address - Fala 39:28
September 24, 1944 25:32
Treasury Salute Lt. Mary L. Roberts 14:05
Piano Concerto In B-Flat 3:14
Coast Guard Training Station Band Curtis Bay, Maryland 3:32
Small Fry 3:53
Forget-Me... 3:49
October 1, 1944 25:30
What Soldiers Want For Christmas 3:30
October 8, 1944 25:03
October 15, 1944 25:04
Battle Of Aachen 2:43
Shirley Temple Rings In Canada's Victory Loan 6:10
October 22, 1944 25:22
Admiral Nimitz Communique 1:18
October 29, 1944 25:01
Capt Glenn Miller and the AAFTC Orchestra - Sun Valley 4:52
It Had To Be You 5:28
Where The Mount... 4:33
First Class 4:24
BBC AEF Broadcast Glenn Miller 12:49
BBC American Band of the AEF 12:49
Audrey Russell Interviews Bomb Victim 0:32
November 5, 1944 25:17
November 6, 1944 52:55
Election Night 1944 14:15
Music for the Wehrmacht 4:16
Music For The Wehrmacht 9:39
Music for the Wehrmacht 4:06
Music For The Wehrmacht 3:34
The Fruits Of 1944 12:06
The Fruits Of 1944 12:06
FDR Returns To Washington 15:54
November 11, 1944 4:23
November 12, 1944 23:54
November 19, 1944 25:21
The Allied Western Offensive 14:25
The Slit Trench 4:21
AFRS Command Performance Thanksgiving Special 28:45
Winston Churchill America's Thanksgiving Day 3:58
MBS Answer Man Thanksgiving 15:56
Thank You, America 13:39
November 24, 1944 0:31
A Let... 4:49
Too-R 5:12
Janie & There Is No Greater Love 5:15
Just Kiddin' Around 3:21
Caprice Viennois 4:05
Long, Long Ago 4:26
I'm Gonna Hang My Hat On A… 4:01
April Showers 5:28
Flight Of The Bumblebee 4:48
Summertime & Shortenin' Bread 5:48
Perry Como, Benny Goodman & his V-Disc All-Star Band 3:27
How Many Hearts Have You Broken 4:08
Music for the Wehrmacht 4:22
Music for the Wehrmacht 4:01
Music for the Wehrmacht 4:32
Music for the Wehrmacht 3:46
Music for the Wehrmacht 3:07
Music for the Wehrmacht 5:15
Music for the Wehrmacht 3:37
Music for the Wehrmacht 4:50
Music for the Wehrmacht 3:08
Music for the Wehrmacht 2:09
Music for the Wehrmacht 3:39
Music for the Wehrmacht 4:10
Music for the Wehrmacht 4:56
Music for the Wehrmacht 4:11
Music for the Wehrmacht 2:39
Music for the Wehrmacht 3:39
Wehrmacht Hour A 17:51
ABSIE Wehrmacht Hour B 24:18
December 3, 1944 25:13
Jack Scott Christmas Dinner In The Field 3:26
Sgt Joe Grieves Shell Shock, Losing Your Nerve 4:43
CBC Tea Time On The Battlefront 3:22
The Homecoming of Major David Currie, VC 6:46
Glenn Miller Last Broadcast 2:39
The Forgotten Army 4:10
Benito Mussolini Discorso 1:01
Robert Barr Reports On Ardennes Withdrawal 1:15
December 19, 1944 29:37
A Slip Of The Lip (Might Sink A Ship) 1:51
Frank Singiser And The News 14:46
December 24, 1944 2:10:12
Glenn Miller Is Missing 0:21
We Are Not The Forgotten Front 1:06
December 25, 1944 3:04
December 26, 1944 1:01:07
December 31, 1944 24:43
1944 In Review 1:01:07
Song Of th… 4:41
Which Switch Witch & The Bass 5:48
Begin The Beguine 5:11
Una Furtiva Lagrima 4:39
Largo 3:51
Among My Souvenirs 5:23
I Cover The Waterfront 3:28
Jalousie 3:46
El Capitan 2:06
Boston Pops Orchestra - Washington 2:14
AFRS Mosquito Network The All Navy Show 21:53
BBC Night Air Raid 1:02
I'll Walk Alone 3:41
Kraft Dinner 0:53
Lord Haw Haw Calling Invasion Forces - Want To Be Happy 3:28
The Mystery Chef Butter-Stretcher Recipe 13:45
Parkay 0:56
Senator Truman Bonds Appeal 1:01
Jimmie Fidler's Hollywood 13:36
All You Fascists Bound To Lose 1:35
MBS Mutual Jingle 0:11
June 6, 1944 1:06:12
June 6, 1944 1:00:30
June 6, 1944 1:04:53
June 6, 1944 1:05:18
June 6, 1944 1:01:24
June 6, 1944 55:31
June 6, 1944 59:50
June 6, 1944 56:39
June 6, 1944 55:46
June 6, 1944 1:00:23
June 6, 1944 54:10
June 6, 1944 1:04:17
June 6, 1944 58:04
June 6, 1944 36:02
June 6, 1944 58:20
June 6, 1944 56:30
June 6, 1944 58:59
June 6, 1944 59:06
June 6, 1944 59:09
June 6, 1944 56:53
June 6, 1944 56:22
June 6, 1944 59:15
June 6, 1944 57:25
June 6, 1944 55:44

Reviews

Amazing, but a question


(4 stars)

Hello! This is a wonderful collection of information. I am from a history museum, and I'm interested in using the #127 in the 1944 news dump -- a short advertisement re: used fats. Can you tell me what your source is so I can inquire after a copyright? Thanks so much!