AFRS / War Department
AFRS / War Department · 1948–1948
49 EpisodesFortnightlyPGSince 1948
The run
The Voice of the Army was produced by the US War Department and carried by stations across the country during the Second World War, mixing military bands, guest performers and reports from training camps and the fronts. As US Government work it is in the public domain; this run is digitised at the Internet Archive as “TheVoiceOfTheArmy”.
Source collection
Internet Archive audio collections
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
The shape of the run
1 dated broadcasts across 1 years on the air. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Restored broadcasts from 1948, in original transmission order.
1 Aug 1948 · 14 min
Public-domain transfer from the Internet Archive item “TheVoiceOfTheArmy”.
Date unknown · 14 min
Public-domain transfer from the Internet Archive item “TheVoiceOfTheArmy”.
Date unknown · 15 min
Public-domain transfer from the Internet Archive item “TheVoiceOfTheArmy”.
Date unknown · 15 min
Public-domain transfer from the Internet Archive item “TheVoiceOfTheArmy”.
Date unknown · 15 min
Public-domain transfer from the Internet Archive item “TheVoiceOfTheArmy”.
Date unknown · 15 min
Public-domain transfer from the Internet Archive item “TheVoiceOfTheArmy”.
Date unknown · 14 min
Public-domain transfer from the Internet Archive item “TheVoiceOfTheArmy”.
Date unknown · 14 min
Public-domain transfer from the Internet Archive item “TheVoiceOfTheArmy”.
Same night on the air
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 1 Aug 1948.
1 Aug 1948 · 30 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 1 August 1948. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Broadcast 1 August 1948. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
Same seasons
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What it became
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Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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