AFRTS Archive

LaRita Shelby is determined that AFRTS broadcasters will be recognized.  We've talked about this a few times over the years.  I see...

Billy Williams at AFVN DaNang This is one of my shows from early April 1972 and one of my first at  AFVN.  It aired shortly after I ...

Chris Noel rocks in this 1969 Date With Chris and personifies the girl next door.  It's a great listen. Chris Noel - 1969 M...

The Whistler was a well done anthology series that I always thought was great programming.  He was on AFRTS starting in the 40s well th...

Chris Noel brings home that much closer on this Date With Chris.  Vets still talk about the show after all of these years.  Chris toure...

"If Freedom Fails" continues to part two.  James Whitmore stars.  What could happen if the communists took over sports?  In t...

It's 1967 and Chris Noel is back with another hour from home on A Date With Chris.  When she started the show there was a lot of mi...

Bruce Wendell has your Orchestral favorites in the matchless high fidelity of frequency modulation.  They talked like that.  Bruce work...

Dick Stark has some MOR music and the story of President Franklin Pierce, for the Marine Corps Reserve.  Thank you John! Spectrum U...

From AFN Frankfurt, Walter Peterson "Soul Star" AFN - Walt Peterson 1980 More from AFN

In the late 1940s and 50s AFRTS took their mission to educate the troops very seriously and did several high quality command informatio...

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  I hope that you and yours had a wonderful Christmas.   Christmas memories on AFRTS

Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops and AFRTS had a long relationship.  From WWII well into the 1970s they shared the same stage.  Here...

So AFRS did run on US radio.  As a special treat, the Christmas 1942 show ran on all of the US networks.  Merry Christmas to you and yo...

In 1994 an era was over, AFN Berlin was shut down.  Gail Anderson had the last morning show. Gail Anderson - AFN Berlin last mornin...

She worked hard.  Chris would have had a lot of frequent flier miles.  She brought home to troops all over the world.  It made the ...

Jimmy Wakely wishes you a very Merry Christmas 1968. Jimmy Wakely - Christmas 1968 More Christmas Memories More Jimmy Wakel...

Dick Stark is back with the music of Millard Fillmore.  Not really, but in 1971 he did a great series of shows for Marine Reserve Recru...

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Back to the Coke shows!  No one seems to know what the story is on these.  In 1969 AFRTS had some sort of arrangement with some of the ...

In the late 1940s AFRS did many shows to explain the mission.  A lot of why and how.  Glenn Ford had spent WWII as a Marine.  He stars ...

“Here's part one, Thom. I started in Vietnam as a Signal Corps bench technician at AVEL Central (Avionics/Aviation Electronics) in 1...

Sunday mornings AFRTS ran chapel shows.  Silhouette was contemporary music and stories.  Jerry saved this one.  He was in Thailand and ...

Dan Daniel In 1969 the Coca Cola Company and AFRTS somehow arranged for a series of albums to be recorded to be distributed to the tr...

Chris did so much for us, The Date With Chris show, toured all over the world, particularly in the hotspots and has been one of the mos...

Benny Brown went from AFN to great career in European radio, including Radio Luxembourg blasting all over Europe. In February we heard a di...

The great big bands continued touring well into the 1970s.  In the 1940s, 50s and 60s AFRTS aired remote broadcasts of the best on One ...

Halloween Memories on AFRTS