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- Title
- The Cavalcade of America: "Between Them Both"
- Description
- Stars Nancy Kelly. Announcer: Narrator Bud Collyer. Produced and directed by Homer Fickett. Music conducted by Don Voorhees. Written by Kay Van Riper. The story of how the war changed the lives of a typical American family on the home front.
- Series
- Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
- Subject
- Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; American family; World War II
- Local Identifier
- program_no:312
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101758
- Rights statement
- Reproduction and copyright information regarding this recording is available from the American University Library -- Special Collections.
- Title
- CBS Covers the D-Day Invasion (5:52 - 6:22 AM)
- Date
- 1944-06-06
- Description
- CBS. Parts 13-14. Major Eliot continues with a bulletin -- Nazis report Allied landings, etc. Then Bob Trout reviews the morning's events, reads SHAEF bulleting-Allied battleships support invasion, re-reads Gen. Pershing's statement. Switch to London for brief recap of invasion news. Trout resumes with a recap of events. Then Major Eliot has a feature item about an American sergeant, other invasion stories about Allied preparation. Then Trout resumes with New York reaction to invasion.
- Series
- News programs
- Subject
- World War II; World War, 1939-1945 Campaigns France Normandy
- Subject -- Personal Name
- Trout, Robert
- Local Identifier
- news-680
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-17172
- Rights statement
- Reproduction and copyright information regarding this recording is available from the American University Library -- Special Collections.
- Title
- FDR Declaration of War (Reel 1)
- Date
- 1941-12-08
- Description
- Mutual Broadcasting System. Fulton Lewis, Jr. and Walter Compton in the House Radio Gallery. Disc 1 begins with FDR's address. He backgrounds the recent peace talks, etc.
- Series
- News programs
- Subject
- World War II; Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941
- Subject -- Personal Name
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945; Compton, Walter, 1912-1959; Lewis, Fulton, 1903-1966
- Local Identifier
- news-673
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-17176
- Rights statement
- Reproduction and copyright information regarding this recording is available from the American University Library -- Special Collections.
- Title
- H.V. Kaltenborn and The News
- Date
- 1941-12-07
- Description
- NBC Red Network. Kaltenborn offers first reports on attack, recounts what has happened during the past 50 minutes, attack on Peak Harbor, Manila, first eyewitness accounts come across the wires, services called upon to protect the United States, various targets of Japanese, first Honolulu report on wires, torpedoing of U.S. ships, Japanese preparation for attacks, foreign warship appears off Pearl Harbor.
- Series
- News programs
- Subject
- Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941; World War II
- Subject -- Personal Name
- Kaltenborn, H. V. (Hans), 1878-1965
- Local Identifier
- news-663
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-17169
- Rights statement
- Reproduction and copyright information regarding this recording is available from the American University Library -- Special Collections.
- Title
- Jack Child standing in front of WWI memorial cross in Port Stanley
- Date
- 12/1986
- Creator
- Child, Jack
- Publisher
- American University Library. Archives and Special Collections.
- Description
- Falkland/Malvinas: Jack Child at WWI monument and cemetery. World Discoverer. December 1986. From print
- Subject
- Child, Jack; World War II; Monuments; Cemeteries
- Local Identifier
- JCSL_2619
- Type
- color slide
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/JCSL_2619
- Rights statement
- Reproduction and copyright information regarding this image is available from the American University Library -- Special Collections.
- Title
- NBC Covers V-J Day (2:30-3:05 AM)
- Date
- 1945-08-15
- Description
- NBC. 2:30 AM - Special report from Okinawa with reaction, description, music. 2:35 AM - Victory Parade of Bands - Lawrence Welk and His Orchestra, playing from the Mural Room of the St. Francis Hotel, San Francisco. Joe Hutchins, announcer. Elmer Peterson and The News (no start time listed). MacArthur sends message to Hirohito, Japanese start to surrender, Tokyo has flashed cease-fired message, Hirohito speaks to people, final Allied air mission over Japan, United States celebrates V-J Day, reconversion plans, switch to Guam to Nimitz communication on Japanese airplanes still being shot down.
- Series
- News programs
- Subject
- World War II; V-J Day, 1945
- Subject -- Personal Name
- MacArthur, Douglas, 1880-1964; Hirohito, Emperor of Japan, 1901-
- Local Identifier
- news-721
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-17171
- Rights statement
- Reproduction and copyright information regarding this recording is available from the American University Library -- Special Collections.
- Title
- "Protector" WWII Canadian minesweeper on the beach on New Island
- Date
- 02/01/1996
- Creator
- Unknown
- Publisher
- American University Library. Archives and Special Collections.
- Description
- Falkland Islands: "Protector." Canadian Minesweeper. Motor Ship Explorer 603. 1 Feb 1996
- Subject
- World War II; Falkland Islands -- Pictorial Works; Ships
- Local Identifier
- JCSL_2781
- Type
- color slide
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/JCSL_2781
- Rights statement
- Reproduction and copyright information regarding this image is available from the American University Library -- Special Collections.
- Title
- Rebroadcast of Baukhage's Description of FDR's Internment and Piano Playhouse
- Date
- 1945-04-15
- Description
- 12:30 PM - Rebroadcast of Baukhage's Description of FDR's Internment. George Hayes, announcer. With Baukhage, Walter Kiernan, etc. From 11:00 - 11:30 AM segment of April 15, 1945. 12:45 PM - Piano Playhouse - Unidentified pianist, singer, music and announcer.
- Series
- News programs
- Subject
- World War II
- Subject -- Personal Name
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945; Baukhage, Hilmar R. (Hilmar Robert), b. 1889
- Local Identifier
- news-697
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-17173
- Rights statement
- Reproduction and copyright information regarding this recording is available from the American University Library -- Special Collections.
- Title
- Stern of WWII Canadian minesweeper off of New Island
- Date
- 12/31/1988
- Creator
- Child, Jack
- Publisher
- American University Library. Archives and Special Collections.
- Description
- Falkland/Malvinas: New Island. WW2 Canadian Minesweeper. Motor Ship Explorer 1113. 31 December 1988
- Subject
- World War II; Falkland Islands -- Pictorial Works; Ships
- Local Identifier
- JCSL_2772
- Type
- color slide
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/JCSL_2772
- Rights statement
- Reproduction and copyright information regarding this image is available from the American University Library -- Special Collections.
- Title
- V-E Day Broadcasts (Reel 1)
- Date
- 1945-05-08
- Description
- Mutual Broadcasting System. President Harry Truman announces the end of the war in Europe in a special nationwide address. Following this, switch to London for a recording of Prime Minister Winston Churchill's address to the British Empire on the end of the war in Europe. Then to Washington where Fulton Lewis, Jr. recaps the morning's events and adds some interesting highlights about Truman's remarks to the press, reel concludes with recorded martial music.
- Series
- News programs
- Subject
- World War II; V-E Day, 1945
- Subject -- Personal Name
- Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972; Churchill, Winston, Sir, 1874-1965; Lewis, Fulton, 1903-1966
- Local Identifier
- news-713
- Type
- Sound recordings
- Physical Location
- American University Library -- Special Collections
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-17170
- Rights statement
- Reproduction and copyright information regarding this recording is available from the American University Library -- Special Collections.
- Title
- WWII Canadian minesweeper anchored off of New Island
- Date
- 12/31/1988
- Creator
- Unknown
- Publisher
- American University Library. Archives and Special Collections.
- Description
- Falkland/Malvinas: New Island. WW2 Canadian Minesweeper. Motor Ship Explorer 1113. 31 December 1988
- Subject
- World War II; Falkland Islands -- Pictorial Works; Ships
- Local Identifier
- JCSL_2766
- Type
- color slide
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/JCSL_2766
- Rights statement
- Reproduction and copyright information regarding this image is available from the American University Library -- Special Collections.
- Title
- WWII Canadian minesweeper off shore of New Island
- Date
- 12/27/1988
- Creator
- Unknown
- Publisher
- American University Library. Archives and Special Collections.
- Description
- Falkland/Malvinas: New Island. WW2 Canadian Minesweeper. Motor Ship Explorer 1112. 27 December 1988
- Subject
- World War II; Falkland Islands -- Pictorial Works; Ships
- Local Identifier
- JCSL_2752
- Type
- color slide
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/JCSL_2752
- Rights statement
- Reproduction and copyright information regarding this image is available from the American University Library -- Special Collections.
- Title
- WWII Canadian minesweeper on beach of New Island
- Date
- 12/31/1988
- Creator
- Child, Jack
- Publisher
- American University Library. Archives and Special Collections.
- Description
- Falkland/Malvinas: New Island. WW2 Canadian Minesweeper. Motor Ship Explorer 1113. 31 December 1988
- Subject
- World War II; Falkland Islands -- Pictorial Works; Ships
- Local Identifier
- JCSL_2778
- Type
- color slide
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/JCSL_2778
- Rights statement
- Reproduction and copyright information regarding this image is available from the American University Library -- Special Collections.