Archive for January, 2007
File003: Tarawa Was Tough
In this episode we’ll hear Tarawa Was Tough from Suspense. This episode originally aired May 12, 1957.
The U.S. Marines make an amphibious landing and attack the heavily fortified Japanese army in its fight for Tarawa. More information about the Battle of Tarawa can be found here.
File002: Combined Operations
I wanted to get another episode out soon, but I’m still putting some things together! The intro is a bit long, but I like it…
This episode features the first broadcast of Words At War, from June of 1943. It tells the story of a commando raid against a port, with the intention of keeping the German battleship Tirpitz from docking there.
File001: The Thirteenth Truck
Radio At War will bring you both fiction and non-fiction stories from the second world war and beyond. With at least one episode per week, we’ll explore the lives of the men and women who became known as the greatest generation through news reports and the radio dramas that told their stories.
This time around we’ll hear an episode of Escape that first aired in August of 1953. It takes the listener on a commando raid to destroy a secret Nazi airfield in North Africa.
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