Sun, 1 November 2009  Episode 34: A first hand account of how American and Fillipino prisoners where treated by the Japanese at the Prisoner of War Camp in Davao , Philippines.Comments[0] |
Mon, 12 October 2009  Episode 33 : This week's show is some comedy relief from the normal stories from this time period.Comments[0] |
Mon, 3 August 2009  Episode 32 : In the book, Vercors tells of how an old man and his niece show resistance against the German officer, who is occupying their house.The German officer is disillusioned when he realizes the real goal of the German Army is not to build, but to ruin and to exploit. He then chooses to leave France to fight on the Eastern Front.Comments[0] |
Tue, 30 June 2009  Episode 31 : This story concerns Italian-American US Army Major Joppolo, who was placed in charge of the town of Adano during the invasion of Sicily.Major Joppolo's attempts to replace the 700 year old bell that was taken by the Fascist ,wins the trust and love of the people.Comments[0] |
Mon, 1 June 2009  Episode 30 : A story of action in the Pacific aboard a U.S destroyer, writtien by Frederick .J. Bell. The song you hear is called To
Victory! by DJ Topshelf .Comments[0] |
Fri, 15 May 2009  Episode 29 :
Agnes Smedley tells her story of 12 years, about living with Chinese guerillas fighting the Japanese. The song you hear is called To Victory! by DJ Topshelf .Comments[0] |
Fri, 1 May 2009  Episode 28 : During any wartime the question is always asked."What are we doing to the children of the world. This is a stark protrait of how the children of the U.S.A and Europe are affected by the war.Comments[0] |
Wed, 15 April 2009  Episode 27 : Don Gentile, one of America's top aces of the war, in his P-51B Mustang named " Shangri-La " had over 21 kills to his name. Don's mother speaks after the drama from Cincinnati.Comments[0] |
Wed, 1 April 2009  Episode 26 : Seventeen year old Lin Taie, the auther of the book "War Tide", is interviewed by Jack Costello before the show. The "War Tide" is the spirit uniting the Chinese people against the Japanese.Comments[0] |
Mon, 16 March 2009  Episode 25 : Using a script that was later made into an all time classic motion picture, this is a touching, beautiful story about the women left behind as the men go off to war.Comments[0] |
Sun, 1 March 2009  Episode 24 : A wartime trip around the country to find ani-Semitism and isolationism in Boston, poor white trash in the South, delinquency and the racial question.Comments[0] |
Mon, 16 February 2009  Episode 23 : A well done boigraphy of a former slave who became a world famous scientist. Carver's work resulted in the creation of 325 products from peanuts, more than 100 products from sweet potatoes and hundreds more from a dozen other plants native to the South.Comments[0] |
Sun, 1 February 2009  Episode 22 : A young German boy is saved from starvation by a Dutch family. In typical Nazi fashion, he violates the Ten Commandments and turns into a monster called Henrik Willem Von Loon .
The song you hear is called To Victory! by DJ TopshelfComments[1] |
Fri, 16 January 2009  Episode 21 : Based on a book by Robert Goffin, a portrait of the underground resistance movement in Nazi occupied Belgium.
The song you hear is called To Victory! by DJ TopshelfComments[0] |
Sat, 3 January 2009  Episode 20 : Joseph Driscoll a New York Herald Tribune reporter, in his book Pacific Victory 1945 he treid to tell what the fighting ships had to do in the Pacific to beat the enemy and how soon they may exect complete victory. This show is dedicated to Chris Farkas and his Grandfather.
The song you hear is called To Victory! by DJ Topshelf.Comments[0] |
Sun, 14 December 2008  Episode 19: A very well done story about an average British sailor and his experiences before during and after the war. Excellent production values with sea chanteys sung by Tom Glazer. Comments[0] |
Sun, 30 November 2008  Episode 18 : Carlos P Romulo was a Filipino diplomat, soldier, journalist and author. He was a reporter at 16, a newspaper editor by the age of 20, and a publisher at 32. He was the co-founder of the Boys Scouts of the Philippines. And was an aid the Douglas MacArthur in World War 2 .He died, at 86, in Manila, December 15 1985 and was buried in the Heroes Cemetery. He was honoured as the Philippine's greatest diplomat in the 20th Century.Comments[0] |
Fri, 14 November 2008  Episode 17 : This week's show is reenactments of actual war letters sent home from soldiers overs seas. The song you hear is called To Victory! by DJ Topshelf. Comments[1] |
Fri, 31 October 2008  Episode 16 : Benito Mussolini is credited with being one of the key figures in the creation of Fascism. He became the Prime Minister of Italy in 1922 and began using the title Il Duce(is a Italian word meaning leader) by 1925. Mussolini remained in power until he was replaced in 1943, for a short period after until his death he was the leader of the Italian Social Republic. Comments[0] |
Tue, 14 October 2008  Episode 15 : This is the true story of war correspondent Michael Peddap, and how he was imprisoned in Bulgaria by the Nazis, and how he finally escaped. The song you hear at the start and finish is called To Victory! by DJ Topshelf.Comments[0] |
Tue, 30 September 2008  Episode 14 : Born in Louisville, Kentucky, John Mason Brown graduated from Harvard College in 1923. He worked for the New York Evening Post from 1929 to 1941. He served as a lieutenant in the United States Navy during World War II, begining in 1942. His book, To All Hands, documents his activities aboard USS Ancon during Operation Husky, the invasion of Sicily. Comments[0] |
Sun, 14 September 2008  Episode 13 : Following the entry of the U.S. into World War II, Ernie Pyle became a war correspondent, applying his intimate style to the war. Instead of the movements of armies or the activities of generals Pyle generally wrote from the perspective of the common soldier. An approach that won him a Pulitzer Prize in 1944. Comments[1] |
Mon, 1 September 2008  Episode 12 : This week's episode is about the men that served and fought from Dutch Harbor, Alaska. Just 2,500 miles from Tokyo, they fought the weather as much as the enemy. The song you hear in this show is To Victory! by DJ Topshelf. Comments[0] |
Mon, 18 August 2008  Episode 11 : Mrs. Etta Shiber, a former housewife, who help form the Paris Underground. Where she helped smuggle 150 British soldiers out of occupied France. She was tracked around Paris, and was caught and imprisoned for a year and a half by the Gestapo. Etta was finally handed over the U.S. in exchange for Johanna Hofmann, a Nazi spy. The song you hear at the start and finish is called To Victory! by DJ Topshelf. Comments[0] |
Sun, 3 August 2008  Episode 10 : About 4:30 in the afternoon of November 2, 1942. A fast Dutch luxury liner was torpedoed and sunk some few hundred miles off the coast of South America. Only a few of the more then four hundred persons on the ship survived, and three of them were Basil Izzi, Cornelius van der Slot and Nicko Hoogendam. They were a drift on a raft for 83 days just one day short of 12 weeks before they were pick up by United States Navy. Comments[1] |
Sat, 21 October 2006  Episode 8 : In response to the emergency of World War II, Helion returned to France and joined the armed forces. Takend prisoner in June of 1940, he was held until 1942, when he managed to escape. This is his story. Comments[0] |
Sun, 30 April 2006  Episode 6 : On December 8, 1941, Gwen Dew and two hundred other western civilians were held as prisoners of war until June 30, 1942. She arrived back in the Comments[2] |
Sat, 22 April 2006  Episode 5 : On 31 December 1942, HMS Achates was on escort duty protecting a Russian convey.The German heavy cruiser the Admiral Hipper, and six large destroyers had been ordered to attack and destroy the convoy. Despite being heavily outgunned the escort, under the command of Captain R. Vincent Sherbrooke, beat off the attack and not one merchant vessel was lost. The HMS Achates was sunk in the Barents Sea Comments[1] |
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Sun, 9 April 2006  Episode 3 : Germans had expended more than 46.000 shells and 20.000 tons of bombs against Comments[1] |
Sat, 1 April 2006  Episode 2 : Douglas MacArthur's involvement in the Comments[2] |
Fri, 24 March 2006  Episode 1 : This podcast is 1940's radio dramas about events that happened during World War II. The first is the forming of the British Commandos. The song you hear at the start and finish is called To Victory! By DJ Topshelf of the Podsafe Music Network. Comments[1] |
