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World War II propaganda radio stations (11 P) Pages in category "Radio during World War II" The following 49 pages are in this category, out of 49 total.
These were SOE's radio stations, established when SOE's signals establishments were separated from that of SIS / GCCS at Bletchley Park (originally "Station X"). This formally took place on 1 June 1942. Station 53a - Grendon Hall [1] in Grendon Underwood, near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire - signals centre. Now Spring Hill Prison.
The station was the idea of the Political Warfare Executive's Sefton Delmer and broadcast from the Aspidistra in Sussex, England, between 1943 and 1945. The radio station's transmission signal was strong enough to be received in all the Atlantic Ocean, and thus reach its intended audience, German submariners.
High-frequency direction finding, usually known by its abbreviation HF/DF or nickname huff-duff, is a type of radio direction finder (RDF) introduced in World War II. High frequency (HF) refers to a radio band that can effectively communicate over long distances; for example, between U-boats and their land-based headquarters. HF/DF was ...
26 June – The radio transmission that exposes the 'Red Orchestra' German anti-Nazi resistance group is intercepted by the Funkabwehr. [ 4 ] 28 June – The first of four broadcasts from Berlin to the neutral United States by English-born humorist P. G. Wodehouse , who has been interned in Nazi Germany, is made.
Germany Calling was an English language propaganda radio programme, broadcast by Nazi German radio to audiences in the British Isles and North America during the Second World War. Every broadcast began with the station announcement: "Germany calling! Here are the Reichssender Hamburg, station Bremen".
Initially, the station was on the air from 11.00 am until 11.00 pm. However from Sunday 16 June 1940, the station would commence its broadcasting day from 6.30 am and would continue until 11.00 pm. These broadcasting hours remained in place until the new BBC General Forces Programme began on Sunday 27 February 1944, with the service maintaining ...
Feindsender ("enemy radio station") was a term used in Nazi Germany to describe radio stations broadcasting from countries that were enemies of the German Reich before and during World War II, such as the United Kingdom or the United States. [1] It also referred to radio stations in Germany which broadcast anti-Nazi material.