These are just freaking so nostalgic. I wasn't even born for another 40+ years but listening to these just makes me feel I'm alive in this ww2 period. Falling asleep at night I throw this on and close my eyes
I was 4 months old when these broadcasts started in this video. I had 1 uncle fighting in Italy, 3 aunts working in the airplane factory in Willow Run, Michigan. My dad lost half of a lung to plurisy as a young teen so was rejected by the draft boards but he worked on the ships at the navel base in Key West, Florida, where i was born.
I guess they don't even have that anymore, I wanted a shortwave radio real bad when I was a kid, but got one later. Used to like to listen to all the AM Radio Skip stations too at night!
The story about the old pilot is incredible: from fighting on foot with a basic rifle in Africa in the 1800s, before planes even existed, to dropping bombs and depth charges from a B-24 in WW2. Crazy.
Thank you for uploading these, it is incredibly interesting to hear how events were covered as they were happening. Especially when today contrasting to coverage about the Ukrainian situation.
The interviews with “service members” sound scripted. This is such a treat to listen to. I can only imagine sitting next to a radio and listening to this and believing every single thing I was hearing.
The War Correspondents back then weren't like today's vultures, hovering around with their iPhones attached to their hands like extensions of their limbs, shoving their phone into someone's face as they look for any sound byte they can get. Everything was done with pad and pencil, and the 'scripted' Interviews were just that; an Interview.
@@cleekmaker00 Exactly...glad you see the facts. They weren't "scripted" but people were more respectful, a bit stiff and uncomfortable when interviewed...this "conspiracy around every corner" thinking is ridiculous.
@@L11ghtman Little column a) little column b) Scripted but they are recounting the events that happened to them...probably with the approved version of events and censored in all sorts of ways.
Anyone with enormous radio antenna and out of the solar system short wave receiver can listen this broadcast live at 78 ligh years away from earth. Note. 78 light years are still with in our milkyway galaxy.
This is the box that my grandmother listed to back then because she had 3 sons and one daughter over seas in combat zones. I’m not a hardass but u kids and young people today have NO understanding of the sacrifice that the whole nation endured with every thing they had. Themselves. Husbands. Sons. Daughters. Fathers and mothers at home working 15 hrs per day. 7 days a week. Believe me people it could have gone the other way. Show some respect when u see an ancient American righteous warrior and patriot in his wheelchair. And god bless the ones who gave everything. Everything. For you today. Have a nice life. Shalom
Elitist snob, I was curious about her because of the distinct lack of accent I figured she was a transplant. Nope just East Texan snob, never finished a degree, had already ran for office before this interview, and would go down in flames for helping her friends in Big Pharma during the polio vaccine days...they messed up and gave out a live virus version instead. The more things change the more they stay the same.
It's very interesting how positive the portrayal of the USSR is in these broadcasts. There was a common consensus among the Allied leadership that some level of conflict with Russia would be inevitable after the war. Even Betrand Russell, an ardent pacifist during and after the First World War openly advocated a preventative strike with atomic weapons against Russia immediately after the Second World War ended. So to hear a radio broadcast from 1944 saying that "We have nothing to lose, and everything to gain by cooperating with the Russians" runs completely counter to what the Western Governments appeared to be thinking at the time. Don't really have an answer or explanation as to why other than my understanding of that point in history being wrong, but it is interesting to hear.
We need to remember that the USSR was receiving a massive amount of lend-lease material and not just in the form of military equipment. Sacrifices were being made at home to send this aid and it wouldn’t make sense to muddy the waters. Of course public was already aware of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact with the picture being drawn in as Stalin’s postwar designs were made clear in 1945-46.
On what kind of audio support was this originally recorded? The audio quality is rather surprisingly good for something from 1944. Supposing this was recorded with a direct audio source in the control room I'd be damnd if reel to reel tape existed back then. This couldn't possibly have been recorded on wire rolls, was it? It wouldn't sound that good. There's a good reason why everything was live back in those days.
A Cousin of My Grandmother, was a Bomber Pilot in WW2. I never knew Him, He died before I was born but I saw a picture of Him and their Bomber Crew. I had an ancestor in the Civil War (killed in the battle of Chicamauga (Union side) Had a great Uncle I knew when I was a kid, in WW1, He got some of the Gas, but still lived to 87!
There are vintage radio clubs in most large cities - check with them for their opinions and they should be able to point you to vintage radios for sale.
22 minutes in and I've cringed or laughed in surprise multiple times when thinking about the content in terms of modern society lol wow also the idea of a civilian calling LTs "girls" lol Twitter would kill this guy
0:00 - World News Today (CBS) - 01/09/1944
24:20 - World News Today (CBS) - 01/16/1944
44:23 - World News Today (CBS) - 01/23/1944
1:08:39 - World News Today (CBS) - 01/30/1944
1:32:58 - Skelly News Of The World (NBC) - 02/05/1944
1:47:56 - World News Today (CBS) - 02/06/1944
2:12:42 - World News Today (CBS) - 02/20/1944
2:16:22 - World News Today (CBS) - 02/27/1944
2:41:13 - Crisco Radio News (CBS) - 02/29/1944
2:55:47 - World News Today (CBS) - 03/05/1944
3:20:02 - World News Today (CBS) - 03/12/1944
3:44:54 - World News Today (CBS) - 03/19/1944
4:09:25 - World News Today (CBS) - 03/26/1944
4:34:25 - News Of Norway (NRK) - 03/??/1944
4:36:38 - World News Today (CBS) - 04/02/1944
5:01:22 - Skelly News Of The World (NBC) - 05/13/1944
5:16:20 - World News Today (CBS) - 05/14/1944
5:41:03 - World News Today (CBS) - 05/21/1944
WOW!
Thank you, Byron!
it's important to remember this is how most people "saw" the war, in their imagination while listening to radio. so precious we have these saved.
I would have much rather seen it this way than with social media as today.
These are just freaking so nostalgic. I wasn't even born for another 40+ years but listening to these just makes me feel I'm alive in this ww2 period. Falling asleep at night I throw this on and close my eyes
There is nothing more soothing than vintage music, like a hug from the distant past. 🤗
I was 4 months old when these broadcasts started in this video. I had 1 uncle fighting in Italy, 3 aunts working in the airplane factory in Willow Run, Michigan. My dad lost half of a lung to plurisy as a young teen so was rejected by the draft boards but he worked on the ships at the navel base in Key West, Florida, where i was born.
It's fascinating to realize these are the very words the American people heard so many years ago. Well done!
Who’s to say these weren’t altered
I'm so glad I found these. Kinda strange, but it's the perfect ambience for a rainy day (which is what Alabama is experiencing right now lol)
i add some swing in the background and sounds from the forties, too! Like just a light bit of music in the background
Same. I like to add some laser ambience on a rainy day.
I want an Admiral radio.
Playing this before I go to sleep. :)
best thing
Same here !!!!
How I miss shortwave radio.SO many memories
I guess they don't even have that anymore, I wanted a shortwave radio real bad when I was a kid, but got one later. Used to like to listen to all the AM Radio Skip stations too at night!
The story about the old pilot is incredible: from fighting on foot with a basic rifle in Africa in the 1800s, before planes even existed, to dropping bombs and depth charges from a B-24 in WW2. Crazy.
This channel is an absolute gem!! Thank you!
Thank you for uploading these, it is incredibly interesting to hear how events were covered as they were happening. Especially when today contrasting to coverage about the Ukrainian situation.
The interviews with “service members” sound scripted. This is such a treat to listen to. I can only imagine sitting next to a radio and listening to this and believing every single thing I was hearing.
The War Correspondents back then weren't like today's vultures, hovering around with their iPhones attached to their hands like extensions of their limbs, shoving their phone into someone's face as they look for any sound byte they can get. Everything was done with pad and pencil, and the 'scripted' Interviews were just that; an Interview.
@@cleekmaker00 Exactly...glad you see the facts. They weren't "scripted" but people were more respectful, a bit stiff and uncomfortable when interviewed...this "conspiracy around every corner" thinking is ridiculous.
@@cleekmaker00 I mean Col Cummings was for sure reading his responses.
@@Raydensheraj they were reading their responses. It was scripted.
@@L11ghtman Little column a) little column b)
Scripted but they are recounting the events that happened to them...probably with the approved version of events and censored in all sorts of ways.
Our military industrial complex was invented these years. It’s a monster that has to be fed.
Anyone with enormous radio antenna and out of the solar system short wave receiver can listen this broadcast live at 78 ligh years away from earth. Note. 78 light years are still with in our milkyway galaxy.
Love these keep em coming
Precious!
Not gonna lie but this must have been scary
This is the box that my grandmother listed to back then because she had 3 sons and one daughter over seas in combat zones. I’m not a hardass but u kids and young people today have NO understanding of the sacrifice that the whole nation endured with every thing they had. Themselves. Husbands. Sons. Daughters. Fathers and mothers at home working 15 hrs per day. 7 days a week. Believe me people it could have gone the other way. Show some respect when u see an ancient American righteous warrior and patriot in his wheelchair. And god bless the ones who gave everything. Everything. For you today. Have a nice life. Shalom
Thanks for these!
Now THIS is News
I’d like to hear the German propaganda version of this. Would be an interesting comparison
If I'm not mistaken, , Oveta Culp Hobby became very well known being the first HEW Secretary, as well as head of the WACs.
Elitist snob, I was curious about her because of the distinct lack of accent I figured she was a transplant. Nope just East Texan snob, never finished a degree, had already ran for office before this interview, and would go down in flames for helping her friends in Big Pharma during the polio vaccine days...they messed up and gave out a live virus version instead.
The more things change the more they stay the same.
Working on this , it'll take a while. In between Classic Movies! Douglas Edwards was around into the 80s I think in news.
4 months of 1944 war news. nice!
It's very interesting how positive the portrayal of the USSR is in these broadcasts. There was a common consensus among the Allied leadership that some level of conflict with Russia would be inevitable after the war. Even Betrand Russell, an ardent pacifist during and after the First World War openly advocated a preventative strike with atomic weapons against Russia immediately after the Second World War ended. So to hear a radio broadcast from 1944 saying that "We have nothing to lose, and everything to gain by cooperating with the Russians" runs completely counter to what the Western Governments appeared to be thinking at the time. Don't really have an answer or explanation as to why other than my understanding of that point in history being wrong, but it is interesting to hear.
@Beatnik K
We need to remember that the USSR was receiving a massive amount of lend-lease material and not just in the form of military equipment. Sacrifices were being made at home to send this aid and it wouldn’t make sense to muddy the waters. Of course public was already aware of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact with the picture being drawn in as Stalin’s postwar designs were made clear in 1945-46.
On what kind of audio support was this originally recorded? The audio quality is rather surprisingly good for something from 1944. Supposing this was recorded with a direct audio source in the control room I'd be damnd if reel to reel tape existed back then. This couldn't possibly have been recorded on wire rolls, was it? It wouldn't sound that good. There's a good reason why everything was live back in those days.
Reports on a war without end according to some [religiously thinking] amen...
A Cousin of My Grandmother, was a Bomber Pilot in WW2. I never knew Him, He died before I was born but I saw a picture of Him and their Bomber Crew. I had an ancestor in the Civil War (killed in the battle of Chicamauga (Union side) Had a great Uncle I knew when I was a kid, in WW1, He got some of the Gas, but still lived to 87!
They recorded it using transcription discs...16" glass platters covered with black shellac using a cutting head.
@@BETTERWORLDSGT Mustard gas was in use during WW1, burnt the skin and blinded 1,000's of men.
@@harrycurrie9664 My Uncle Ed got it pretty bad, but He must have been luckier than others!
Does anyone know of a good WW2 era radio?
Blaupunkt.
There are vintage radio clubs in most large cities - check with them for their opinions and they should be able to point you to vintage radios for sale.
An Admiral?
According to this Admiral makes great Radios
Admiral radios are on ebay for 20$ vintage
Fantastic !!!
I'm glad you liked it!
Admiral McIntire was able to say FDR was in perfect health with a straight face.
It would be cool to listen to all the radio broadcasts between then and now, at double speed. Race to see if you can catch up before you die :^P
August 13 1944 Crete island the germans killed 25 people in the village called Anogion
22 minutes in and I've cringed or laughed in surprise multiple times when thinking about the content in terms of modern society lol wow also the idea of a civilian calling LTs "girls" lol Twitter would kill this guy
Farnsworth Fowl sounds like the stereotypical white man voice...and his name sounds like a literary character.
What’s wrong with the white man voice. It is the voice of most of America .
Man, that women welder story sounds like a bunch of coded informstion going out over the airwaves. I wonder what it really meant.
FJB
Did you succeed?