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Your Army Air Forces

AFRS / War Department

AFRS / War Department · 1944–1945

13 EpisodesFortnightlyPGSince 1944

The run

Network
AFRS / War Department
Years active
1944–1945
Surviving broadcasts
13
Genre
variety

Your Army Air Forces was a wartime War Department programme built around the Army Air Forces Orchestra and dramatised accounts of air operations. Produced as US Government work, the surviving recordings are in the public domain and stream from the Internet Archive item “YourArmyAirForces”.

1945 · 111944 · 1

Source collection

Internet Archive audio collections

Rights

Public domain — no renewed US copyright

Cataloguing

Air dates and notes from the Archive item record

Every broadcast below carries its own provenance sheet — transfer quality, file source and rights.Archive record: YourArmyAirForces

The shape of the run

What survives, year by year

6 dated broadcasts across 2 years on the air. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.

JFMAMJJASOND
1944
1945
Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording

Episodes

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Listen to the run in order

Restored broadcasts from 1944, in original transmission order.

  1. 1. Your Army Service Forces 19440714 Prgm31 · 14 Jul 1944
  2. 2. yaaf.1945.07.12 Interview with a Bomb · 12 Jul 1945
  3. 3. yaaf.1945.08.09 Night Radar · 9 Aug 1945
  • 01

    Your Army Service Forces 19440714 Prgm31

    14 Jul 1944 · 28 min

    Public-domain transfer from the Internet Archive item “YourArmyAirForces”.

  • 02

    yaaf.1945.07.12 Interview with a Bomb

    12 Jul 1945 · 30 min

    Public-domain transfer from the Internet Archive item “YourArmyAirForces”.

  • 03

    yaaf.1945.08.09 Night Radar

    9 Aug 1945 · 29 min

    Public-domain transfer from the Internet Archive item “YourArmyAirForces”.

  • 04

    yaaf.1945.09.06 Doolittle Flier

    6 Sep 1945 · 28 min

    Public-domain transfer from the Internet Archive item “YourArmyAirForces”.

  • 05

    yaaf.1945.09.13 Fire-Fighting Paratroops

    13 Sep 1945 · 29 min

    Public-domain transfer from the Internet Archive item “YourArmyAirForces”.

  • 06

    yaaf.1945.09.20 Blind Landings

    20 Sep 1945 · 28 min

    Public-domain transfer from the Internet Archive item “YourArmyAirForces”.

  • 07

    yaaf.1945.09.27 Hydroponics

    27 Sep 1945 · 27 min

    Public-domain transfer from the Internet Archive item “YourArmyAirForces”.

  • 08

    yaaf.1945.10.04 GI Bill

    4 Oct 1945 · 29 min

    Public-domain transfer from the Internet Archive item “YourArmyAirForces”.

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13 Sep 1945

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13 Sep 1945 · 26 min

Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 13 September 1945. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).

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Arch Oboler's Plays 1945-09-13 (22) A Gallery Of Big Shots - Masculine

13 Sep 1945 · 28 min

Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 13 September 1945. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).

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