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Category: The 1940s

Australian WWII Pacific Radio – Diggers on Air

Australian forces in the SW Pacific and Japan were served by a number of stations during and immediately after WWII. The little known Australian Army…

KODK Kodiak AFRS Radio 1941

by Joe Stevens Kodiak is credited with being the first armed forces radio station. This is correct if you qualify it by saying that it…

AFRS Alaska

Some 65 years ago, in early 1941, KRB radio began broadcasting from Sitka, Alaska. This was the unofficial birth of the soon to become global…

WVUS New Caledonia

Mosquito Network in the French Pacific Some Contemporary Recollections by David Ricquish In May 1943, a station was heard in New Zealand, identifying itself with…

Mosquito Network In Fiji

This article was originally material for a broadcast of “Wavescan” via Adventist World Radio and now forms part of the Radio Heritage Collection ©. All…

Christmas All Year Round WVTR Tokyo

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On The Air In Tokyo Bay

This article was originally aired over Adventist World Radio’s “Wavescan” program and now forms part of the Radio Heritage Collection ©. All rights reserved to…

The NIROM Story

This article appears with kind permission of the author, Jack Fox The Netherlands Indies Broadcasting Company Ltd This interesting history on the formation of radio…

I Will Return

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The Story Of A Burning Passenger Liner

This article was originally material for a broadcast of “Wavescan” via Adventist World Radio and now forms part of the Radio Heritage Collection ©. All…

Early Radio In India

This article was originally aired over Adventist World Radio’s “Wavescan” program and now forms part of the Radio Heritage Collection ©. All rights reserved to…

WVTR Photo Album

Thanks to Ken Harriman for those snaps from his photo album. All rights reserved to Ragusa Media Group, PO Box 14339, Wellington, New Zealand.

Wartime Radio in Sri Lanka

This article was originally aired over Adventist World Radio’s “Wavescan” program and now forms part of the Radio Heritage Collection ©. All rights reserved to…

AFN In The ETO

American Forces Network in the European Theatre of Operation This article now forms part of the Radio Heritage Collection ©. All rights reserved to Ragusa…

The Pineapple Network

This article was originally aired over Adventist World Radio’s “Wavescan” program and now forms part of the Radio Heritage Collection ©. All rights reserved to…

9PA Port Moresby

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WW II – California on SW

This article was originally aried over AWR and now forms part of the Radio Heritage Collection ©. All rights reserved to Ragusa Media Group, PO…

WVTR & The Japanese Sea Monster

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The Wandering Apache

This article was originally broadcast over AWR’s “Wavescan” DX programme and now forms part of the Radio Heritage Collection ©. All rights reserved to Ragusa…

Japanese Wartime Broadcasting

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