WW2 radio broadcasts

[lionheart]

Hey !

For ease i have put these radio clips in one post

(really gives a feel of what those times were like)







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WW2 BLITZ RADIO BROADCAST FROM THE BBC

London Burning 1940





Internet Archive: Free Download: London Burning 1940 <--- Link



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Witnessing Dog Fight over England-1940 ( radio Broadcast )



Radio broadcast.



Internet Archive: Free Download: Witnessing Dog Fight over England-1940 <--- link



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German Attack On British Convoy 1941 ( radio broadcast )



Internet Archive: Free Download: German Attack On British Convoy





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Coverage Of French Surrender-1940 ( radio broadcast )







Internet Archive: Free Download: Coverage Of French Surrender-1940 <--- link



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Winston Churchill Speeches // around 105 seperate speeches



http://www.archive.org/details/Winston_Churchill <-- LINK









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WW2 Nazi Karl Schwendler AKA Charlie and his Orchestra



Internet Archive: Free Download: WW2 Nazi Karl Schwendler AKA Charlie and his Orchestra2of5 <-- LINK





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Hitlers Last Radio Broadcast to his people 1945





Internet Archive: Free Download: Last Broadcast (April 1945) <-- link



English Translation :

However grave the crisis may be at the moment through our

unalterable will our readiness for sacrifice . and our own abilities

we will overcome the crisis . we will endure , it is not central Asia

that will win ,but Europe led by this nation.

which for fifteen hundred years has defended and will continue to

defend europe against the east , our greater german reich ,

the German nation





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Pearl Harbor Attack announcement





Internet Archive: Free Download: Pearl Harbor Attack announcement <--- link



( as a side note , December 7th was a Sunday. Saturday nights typically hosted a battle of the bands between different ships crews , the Arizona had come in 2nd place , and the reward was an extra hour in bed for the crew. 8.00 am instead

of 7.00 am.



this explains why so many where trapped in their sleeping quarters.

At 7:52 the Japanese began their attack.

The Battleship was bombed and its front ammunition supply exploded. The ship sank in only 19 minutes taking 1,177 men to their deaths.



After the attack, the surviving members of the other ships bands agreed unanimously to award the Battle of the Bands trophy to Band No.22, and further to retire the trophy. It is now on display at the USS Arizona Memorial.



( Band 22 was USS Arizona's musicians )

http://www.ussarizona.org/band/index.html







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kind regards

Richard

[faginsgirl]

Interesting! Thanks Lionheart



xx

[Freddy]

Thanks Lionheart, the whole site, although American themed looks interesting.



FReddy

[Bernardo]

9 O-clock in the evening was the time the family gathered around the wireless in the back room, windows with thick blackout curtains drawn, granddad in his chair by the set, the rest seated around the table with a cup of tea; I was ordered to be quiet before I even opened my mouth! The war news of the day was broadcast which cheered or depressed the grown-ups. The time was never missed, a sort of ceremony within the family. Remember some of the younger ones, my cousins and uncles, were away fighting so there were ears pricked at news from certain theatres of the war, in fact they followed the progress of almost every young man in the forces who lived in the street as such news was shared daily as letters from 'my Terry or Freddy etc. was recounted. My own father was in hospital getting his mind back together after Dunkirk. Luckily for me, my understanding of the situation was not that good until we started to turn the tide. But, returning to the broadcasts, it was the news reader, was it John Snagg? with his characteristic voice and measured delivery that made a lifelong impression on me. I can still visualise the group, the garden outside full of vegetables, the air raid shelter at the end of the garden near the fence for the neighbours to hop over. The sky full of white vapour trails, I can remember looking at the patterns they made in the day. Later on it was my job to shout to my mum if a doodle bug's engine stopped.

Yes very atmospheric dark days and good sunny days.

[penfold]

Thanks Bernardo, very evocative. Would it have been Alvar Lidell reading the news??

[lionheart]

thanks Bernardo

i can only imagine what it must of been like living through the bombing raids

and later the V weapons attacks



was there much made of the rantings of Lord Haw Haw at the time ?

i mean was he taken lightly ?





I also found some more on Karl Schwendler ( English speaking German and his Band )

WFMU's Beware of the Blog: Still More Nazi Swing Music (MP3s)









kind regards

Rich

[Steve Crook]

Are there any copies of Edward R. Murrow's broadcasts to America during the Blitz available online? He used to broadcast from the roof of Broadcasting House (BBC headquarters) as the bombs were falling



Steve

[lionheart]

name='Steve Crook']Are there any copies of Edward R. Murrow's broadcasts to America during the Blitz available online? He used to broadcast from the roof of Broadcasting House (BBC headquarters) as the bombs were falling



Steve

Hi Steve

I have found this on Youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KLQx...ayer_embedded#





http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OqRT...ayer_embedded#

[Bernardo]

name='penfold']Thanks Bernardo, very evocative. Would it have been Alvar Lidell reading the news??

Yes of course. Point being made before I got carried away was how important the radio was in those days. I saw a mention of Lord Haw Haw. Our family was pretty stuck in their ways and would not dream of listening to foreign stations. I think his notoriety was probably through the media not from ordinary folk.

[Freddy]

Once again the blog Another Nickel in the Machine is worth reading



The Execution of Lord Haw Haw at Wandsworth Prison in 1946



Another Nickel In the Machine



Freddy

[penfold]

name='Bernardo']Yes of course. Point being made before I got carried away was how important the radio was in those days. I saw a mention of Lord Haw Haw. Our family was pretty stuck in their ways and would not dream of listening to foreign stations. I think his notoriety was probably through the media not from ordinary folk.

Absolutely, the radio was everything; you see it in some films, like A Canterbury Tale, where the evening news broadcast is a daily ritual. Cinema too, of course, but less universally, presumably. My mother is a child of rationing - she was 10 when the War ended - so her memories are hazy and selective as yours must be; being dug out of the remains of granddad's shed as a five-year-old when a lost bomber dumped his load on Basingstoke is one she doesn't care to revisit too often....

[Steve Crook]

name='lionheart']Hi Steve

I have found this on Youtube

YouTube - WWII: Edward Murrow radio news broadcast--The London Blitz





YouTube - Edward R. Murrow in London

Lovely, thanks for those



Steve