The run
- Network
- CBS
- Years active
- 1946–1948
- Surviving broadcasts
- 479
- Genre
- docudrama
Proudly We Hail was a public service show for the Army and Air Force that first aired for a period of four months in 1941 on CBS. The show returned to the airways from 1946 through 1957 and aired on as many as 1300 radio stations. The 1941 shows were billed as a program designed "to strengthen the mainstream of the defense machine – the workers in the arsenal of democracy – during a time of unlimited national emergency". This was the time of the buildup of tensions in the Far East and just prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Major Bowes and Jane Froman kicked off the first 30 minute show on the CBS network…
Source collection
Old Time Radio Researchers Group
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
2 dated broadcasts across 3 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 1946, in original transmission order.
- 1. PWH (Audition) Repercussion (With Clark Gable) [T] · 10 Jul 1946
- 2. PWH The Manly Art · 29 Feb 1948
- 3. PWH 490116 132 [Series G 015] Barbara Of Middlesboro [T] · Date unknown
PWH (Audition) Repercussion (With Clark Gable) [T]
10 Jul 1946 · 15 min
Broadcast 10 July 1946. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
PWH The Manly Art
29 Feb 1948 · 29 min
Broadcast 29 February 1948. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
PWH 490116 132 [Series G 015] Barbara Of Middlesboro [T]
Date unknown · 29 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Proudly_We_Hail_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
PWH 500205 070 [Series G 070] Ellen And Prince Charming [Part 2 Only] [T]
Date unknown · 15 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Proudly_We_Hail_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
PWH 510708 144 The Wreckers
Date unknown · 29 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Proudly_We_Hail_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
PWH 520525 190 A Ring Of Stars [T]
Date unknown · 30 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Proudly_We_Hail_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
PWH 530329 234 The General Builds An Army [R]
Date unknown · 29 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Proudly_We_Hail_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
PWH 540124 277 Rest Cure [T]
Date unknown · 29 min
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Proudly_We_Hail_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
Also on CBS
CBS in 1946–1948
Other series the network carried while Proudly We Hail was on the air.
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docudrama on the air then
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