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The foxhole radio, like a mineral crystal radio receiver, had no power source and ran off the power received from the radio station. They were named, likely by the press, for the foxhole, a defensive fighting position used during the war. There are also accounts of prisoners of war in World War II and in the Vietnam War having constructed ...
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.
Mail Call was an American radio program that entertained American soldiers from 1942 until 1945, during World War II. Lt. Col. Thomas A.H. Lewis (commander of the Armed Forces Radio Service) wrote in 1944, "The initial production of the Armed Forces Radio Service was 'Mail Call,' a morale-building half hour which brought famed performers to the microphone to sing and gag in the best American ...
Decisive Battles of World War II: Battles in Normandy (2004) Decisive Battles of World War II: Battles in Italy (2005) Battlefront (2007 video game) (2007) (Namesake of 1986 version) Kharkov: Disaster on the Donets (2008) Across the Dnepr: Second Edition (2010) (Expansion. Remake of 2003 namesake title.)
The Aspidistra antennas. The Deutscher Kurzwellensender Atlantik (German: "German Shortwave Radio Atlantic", popularly known as Atlantiksender – "Atlantic Channel"), [1] was a British propaganda radio station operational during the Second World War.
British propaganda during the First World War set a new benchmark that inspired the fascist and socialist regimes during the Second World War and the Cold War [citation needed]; Marshal Paul von Hindenburg stated, "This English propaganda was a new weapon, or rather a weapon which had never been employed on such a scale and so ruthlessly in the past."
The technology proved useful during World Wars I and II, when countries such as the U.S. and Britain limited civilian airwave activity but enlisted skilled hobbyists to help send and intercept ...
The BBC Home Service had been put together in a hurry and many of the pre-war favourite programmes had been lost. The new network mainly concentrated on news, informational programmes and music – in the early days of the war, the theatre organist Sandy MacPherson provided several hours a day of light organ music to fill gaps in the schedule.