Broadcast 1939-09-03. BBC Home Service. Transferred from the Internet Archive's WWII audio archive (public domain).
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Rationing, salvage, war bonds and the domestic machinery of total war.
58 recordings · 8 broadcasters
Broadcast 1939-11-11. BBC Home Service. Transferred from the Internet Archive's WWII audio archive (public domain).
Broadcast 1939-11-11. BBC Home Service. Transferred from the Internet Archive's WWII audio archive (public domain).
Broadcast 1940-05-13. BBC Home Service. Transferred from the Internet Archive's WWII audio archive (public domain).
The National Archives Collection
Benito Mussolini Reading Italy's Declaration Of War
10 Jun 1940 · 16 min
"This is a sound recording of Benito Mussolini as he read Italy's declaration of war against Great Britain and France. The recording is in Italian."National Archives Identifier: 2174239http://research.archives.gov/description/2174239
Broadcast 1940-10-30. Radio-Paris & Vichy. Transferred from the Internet Archive's WWII audio archive (public domain).
Broadcast 1941-01-01. ABC Australia at War. Transferred from the Internet Archive's WWII audio archive (public domain).
Broadcast 1941-06-01. BBC Home Service. Transferred from the Internet Archive's WWII audio archive (public domain).
Broadcast 1941-07-03. American Networks — Pool Feeds & Stations. Transferred from the Internet Archive's WWII audio archive (public domain).
American Networks — Pool Feeds & Stations
1150 CBS Joint Congress Session Declaration Of War Proceedings
8 Dec 1941 · 1h 9m
Broadcast 1941-12-08. American Networks — Pool Feeds & Stations. Transferred from the Internet Archive's WWII audio archive (public domain).
The National Archives Collection
President Franklin D Roosevelt's Fireside Chat Following The Declaration Of War On Japan
9 Dec 1941 · 27 min
"This sound recording (captured the day after the declaration of war with Japan) is a fireside chat in which President Roosevelt said: 'We are going to win the war and we are going to win the peace that follows.'"National Archives Identifier: 2194627
Broadcast 1941-12-30. CBC Wartime Service. Transferred from the Internet Archive's WWII audio archive (public domain).
American Networks — Pool Feeds & Stations
The Rita Murray Show 04 Wartime Conservation Knitting For Soldiers
20 Jan 1942 · 14 min
Broadcast 1942-01-20. American Networks — Pool Feeds & Stations. Transferred from the Internet Archive's WWII audio archive (public domain).
The National Archives Collection
Speech On Equal Pay And Women's Contribution To The War Effort
22 Feb 1942 · 17 min
"This sound recording captures a speech by Mary Anderson, Director of the Labor Women's Bureau, on American and British women's contribution to the war effort. She discussed women's pre - war difficulties getting into industry, their usefulness once employed, and the types of jobs women took. Anderson also urged equal wages for women in war plants."National Archives Identifier: 1772533
Broadcast 1943-01-01. American Networks — Pool Feeds & Stations. Transferred from the Internet Archive's WWII audio archive (public domain).
Broadcast 1943-01-01. American Networks — Pool Feeds & Stations. Transferred from the Internet Archive's WWII audio archive (public domain).
Broadcast 1943-02-07. American Networks — Pool Feeds & Stations. Transferred from the Internet Archive's WWII audio archive (public domain).
Broadcast 1943-05-10. CBS World News. Transferred from the Internet Archive's WWII audio archive (public domain).
Broadcast 1943-05-11. CBS World News. Transferred from the Internet Archive's WWII audio archive (public domain).
Broadcast 1943-05-12. CBS World News. Transferred from the Internet Archive's WWII audio archive (public domain).
Broadcast 1943-06-10. CBS World News. Transferred from the Internet Archive's WWII audio archive (public domain).
Broadcast 1943-06-14. CBS World News. Transferred from the Internet Archive's WWII audio archive (public domain).
American Networks — Pool Feeds & Stations
The Voice Of New York War Bond Campaign
16 Jun 1943 · 13 min
Broadcast 1943-06-16. American Networks — Pool Feeds & Stations. Transferred from the Internet Archive's WWII audio archive (public domain).
Broadcast 1943-08-27. CBC Wartime Service. Transferred from the Internet Archive's WWII audio archive (public domain).
Broadcast 1943-09-20. CBS World News. Transferred from the Internet Archive's WWII audio archive (public domain).
Broadcast 1943-09-29. CBS World News. Transferred from the Internet Archive's WWII audio archive (public domain).
Broadcast 1943-10-04. CBS World News. Transferred from the Internet Archive's WWII audio archive (public domain).
Broadcast 1943-10-05. CBS World News. Transferred from the Internet Archive's WWII audio archive (public domain).
Broadcast 1943-10-08. CBS World News. Transferred from the Internet Archive's WWII audio archive (public domain).
Broadcast 1943-10-13. CBS World News. Transferred from the Internet Archive's WWII audio archive (public domain).
Broadcast 1943-10-23. American Networks — Pool Feeds & Stations. Transferred from the Internet Archive's WWII audio archive (public domain).
American Networks — Pool Feeds & Stations
043 V Disc A Harry James his Orchestra Caprice Viennois
1 Nov 1943 · 4 min
Broadcast 1943-11-01. American Networks — Pool Feeds & Stations. Transferred from the Internet Archive's WWII audio archive (public domain).
Broadcast 1943-12-10. CBC Wartime Service. Transferred from the Internet Archive's WWII audio archive (public domain).
Broadcast 1943-12-20. CBC Wartime Service. Transferred from the Internet Archive's WWII audio archive (public domain).
American Networks — Pool Feeds & Stations
135 V Disc B Mildred Bailey with Teddy Wilson Scrap Your Fat
1 Feb 1944 · 4 min
Broadcast 1944-02-01. American Networks — Pool Feeds & Stations. Transferred from the Internet Archive's WWII audio archive (public domain).
Broadcast 1944-02-07. NBC News. Transferred from the Internet Archive's WWII audio archive (public domain).
Broadcast 1944-06-06. American Networks — Pool Feeds & Stations. Transferred from the Internet Archive's WWII audio archive (public domain).
Broadcast 1944-06-13. NBC News. Transferred from the Internet Archive's WWII audio archive (public domain).
Broadcast 1944-06-19. American Networks — Pool Feeds & Stations. Transferred from the Internet Archive's WWII audio archive (public domain).
The National Archives Collection
Jennings Randolph Congratulating The French People On The Liberation Of Paris
1 Aug 1944 · 3 min
"Jennings Randolph, Congressman from West Virginia, and chairman of the House District Committee, congratulating the French people on the liberation of Paris."National Archives Identifier: 2320082
Broadcast 1944-08-25. BBC Home Service. Transferred from the Internet Archive's WWII audio archive (public domain).
Broadcast 1944-08-25. American Networks — Pool Feeds & Stations. Transferred from the Internet Archive's WWII audio archive (public domain).
Broadcast 1944-08-26. CBC Wartime Service. Transferred from the Internet Archive's WWII audio archive (public domain).
Broadcast 1944-09-20. BBC Home Service. Transferred from the Internet Archive's WWII audio archive (public domain).
American Networks — Pool Feeds & Stations
304 V Disc A Donald Voorhees his Orchestra Caprice Viennois
1 Nov 1944 · 4 min
Broadcast 1944-11-01. American Networks — Pool Feeds & Stations. Transferred from the Internet Archive's WWII audio archive (public domain).
Broadcast 1945-01-28. American Networks — Pool Feeds & Stations. Transferred from the Internet Archive's WWII audio archive (public domain).
American Networks — Pool Feeds & Stations
First Service At Belsen Concentration Camp
1 Apr 1945 · 0 min
Broadcast 1945-04-01. American Networks — Pool Feeds & Stations. Transferred from the Internet Archive's WWII audio archive (public domain).
The National Archives Collection
Harry S. Truman's Address To The Opening Of The San Francisco Conference Drafting The United Nation's Charter
25 Apr 1945 · 12 min
"This sound recording captures a broadcast made by President Harry S. Truman from the White House to the conference in San Francisco that drafted the United Nation's (U.N.) Charter. On the task facing the new U.N. organization, he said: 'With ever-increasing brutality and destruction, modern warfare, if unchecked, would ultimately crush all civilization....The essence of our problem here is to provide sensible machinery for the settlement of disputes among nations.'"ARC Identifier 2131159
Broadcast 1945-04-30. CBC Wartime Service. Transferred from the Internet Archive's WWII audio archive (public domain).
Broadcast 1945-05-04. American Networks — Pool Feeds & Stations. Transferred from the Internet Archive's WWII audio archive (public domain).
Broadcast 1945-05-05. BBC Home Service. Transferred from the Internet Archive's WWII audio archive (public domain).
Broadcast 1945-05-08. CBS World News. Transferred from the Internet Archive's WWII audio archive (public domain).
Broadcast 1945-05-08. BBC Home Service. Transferred from the Internet Archive's WWII audio archive (public domain).
American Networks — Pool Feeds & Stations
The French Radio The Liberation Of Paris Orson Welles
17 Jul 1945 · 28 min
Broadcast 1945-07-17. American Networks — Pool Feeds & Stations. Transferred from the Internet Archive's WWII audio archive (public domain).
Broadcast 1945-08-14. NBC News. Transferred from the Internet Archive's WWII audio archive (public domain).
Broadcast 1945-08-14. CBS World News. Transferred from the Internet Archive's WWII audio archive (public domain).
American Networks — Pool Feeds & Stations
WISN Japan Surrender Celebration Milwaukee 1
14 Aug 1945 · 58 min
Broadcast 1945-08-14. American Networks — Pool Feeds & Stations. Transferred from the Internet Archive's WWII audio archive (public domain).
American Networks — Pool Feeds & Stations
WISN Japan Surrender Celebration Milwaukee 2
14 Aug 1945 · 19 min
Broadcast 1945-08-14. American Networks — Pool Feeds & Stations. Transferred from the Internet Archive's WWII audio archive (public domain).
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