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From Munich, Bill Swisher brings us the "Weekend World" 29 Nov 1970 AFN Weekend World - November 1970 hour one AF...

During the 1940s there were a lot of programs on the stateside networks that were educational, in a good way.  The best of these were repack...

Time for good morning, 1993 style.  Here's Bill Boyd at the "PowerStation" AFN Bill Boyd 1993

In 1962 the network sent out their 20th anniversary broadcast.  Marvin Miller does a wonderful job.  Only thing that puzzles me is the ...

1,000 posts.  A bare minimum of 500 hours to listen to everything again.  Thank you for your part in our history.  Thank you for visiting.  ...

We're up to the last part of the 1978 Network wide broadcast to celebrate the CMA awards.  From Frankfurt, here's Dave Malone....

AFN's tribute to the 1978 CMA awards continues from Berlin with Rik De Lisle. AFN Berlin - Rik De Lisle 1978 CMA Awards

Some light music, interviews and companionship.  It's Small World with George Church. Small World - 1965

Detroit's Karl Haas was excited about his job.  For many years he put excitement into music from long gone composers. AFRTS broug...

Brian Hartzell 10/21/13 To: Thom Whetston From: Brian Hartzell Sent: Mon 10/21/13 10:27 PM To...

The kids were dancing on the weekend in Tokyo.  From 1960 Dave Robinson and Ray Goodwin hosting a live show fun for the dependents.  Da...

  Our tribute to the 1978 Country Music awards continues (Thanks Hans Knot).  This time we go to AFN Bremerhaven and Jim Johnson   ...

Peaceful music for the dinner hour?  Music to keep the Colonels off our back?  We ran a lot of it.  During WWII we had a program called ...

Here's the other side of a disk from a couple of months ago.  Before we had a network the government was sending radio shows to the fie...

Hans sent this one in.  In 1978 AFN Europe celebrated the Country Music Awards with a series of shows from all over the network.  Here's...

AFKN was an Army "Meritorious Unit".  Everyone was authorized an additional ribbon while there.  The ribbon was authorized becaus...

This would be from roughly 1971. Parts of this have been posted before but this is complete.  The "TotalSound" Moog-logos. ...

And now "The Old Sarge"     I started like most, joining the Service, then attended Armed Forces Radio School, in Ft Ben....

My AFKN story isn't the most exciting, although I enjoyed my nine-plus month tour of duty in the Land of the Mourning Clam. Arrived i...

Laurie's trek began in Morris, Minnesota.  Then it was a journey through the Midwest.  California called then San Francisco and Los Ange...

A while back Michael Brown send a bunch of shows that he did in Adak.  Time for another, this was shortly after he arrived...   AFRT...

Johnson Mercer has more of the countdown you called for in "Sound Off".  Sound Off is older than AFRS.  These programs were dis...

Some good news in the mail...   08/25/2013   Hi Thom,   I am Frank Bresee's producer on the Yesterday USA Radio networks.  ...

From 1942 onward the radio networks sent their shows to AFRTS for rebroadcast to the troops.  The network saved those and over the years...

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Good news from Roger Carroll.  Frank Bresee had a stroke a while back.  Rehab is going so well that he will be vacationing in England. ...

This is from the mid 1940s.  ATC was renamed in 1948. Anywhere Unlimited - The Air Transport Command

We didn't quite exist yet, but there were plans. The War Department was distributing radio programming on 12" disks. These disks ...