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] |
