Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 9 August 1945. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Vintage
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
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1944, in original transmission order.
- 1. YourArmyServiceForces 19440714 Prgm31 · 14 Jul 1944
- 2. yaaf.1945.07.12 Interview with a Bomb · 12 Jul 1945
- 3. yaaf.1945.08.09 Night Radar · 9 Aug 1945
YourArmyServiceForces 19440714 Prgm31
14 Jul 1944 · 28 min
Public-domain transfer from the Internet Archive item “YourArmyAirForces”.
yaaf.1945.07.12 Interview with a Bomb
12 Jul 1945 · 30 min
Public-domain transfer from the Internet Archive item “YourArmyAirForces”.
yaaf.1945.08.09 Night Radar
9 Aug 1945 · 29 min
Public-domain transfer from the Internet Archive item “YourArmyAirForces”.
yaaf.1945.09.06 Doolittle Flier
6 Sep 1945 · 28 min
Public-domain transfer from the Internet Archive item “YourArmyAirForces”.
yaaf.1945.09.13 Fire-Fighting Paratroops
13 Sep 1945 · 29 min
Public-domain transfer from the Internet Archive item “YourArmyAirForces”.
yaaf.1945.09.20 Blind Landings
20 Sep 1945 · 28 min
Public-domain transfer from the Internet Archive item “YourArmyAirForces”.
yaaf.1945.09.27 Hydroponics
27 Sep 1945 · 27 min
Public-domain transfer from the Internet Archive item “YourArmyAirForces”.
yaaf.1945.10.04 GI Bill
4 Oct 1945 · 29 min
Public-domain transfer from the Internet Archive item “YourArmyAirForces”.
Same night on the air
9 Aug 1945
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 9 Aug 1945.
Command Performance
Command Performance 1945-08-09 (187) Walter O'Keefe, Marilyn Maxwell, Les Paul Trio
9 Aug 1945 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on AFRS, 9 August 1945. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Originally broadcast in syndication, 9 August 1945. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Broadcast 9 August 1945. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
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