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"WMUR is permanently dedicated to serving the interests, sity of the people of the State of New Hampshire-in war andconvenience and necesin peace alike."
Former Governor Francis P. Murphy President and Treasurer of
The Radio Voice of New Hampshire, Inc._
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. Behind our war effort is a vast organization known as "Our Government". This government is composed of many federal agencies and officials reflecting the policies of the President and Congress. These various agencies and individuals have important missions to accomplish which require widespread understanding and cooperation. . In a Democracy - even at war - there is a limit to the effectiveness of regulations. In most instances, public acceptance must be secured. To reach our large population of 130,000,000, no medium is more effective than radio.
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And radio, alert to its vital role in this part of the war effort, is generously contributing its facilities, its time, and its trained personnel to serve the government and our people.
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The Record: NATIONAL U. S. Army U. S. Navy U. S. Civil Service
Recruiting for Armed Forces Recruiting for Navy, Marines, Merchant Marine and Coast Guard Recruiting for War Production Workers Maritime Commission Recruiting for Shipyards Workers U. S. Employment Service Recruiting for War Factory Specialists American Red Cross Recruiting for Nurses, Nurses Aids, etc. War Production Board Production Drive Information Office of Price Administration Price Control Information U. S. Treasury Sale of War Bonds & Stamps U. S. O. Campaigns for Funds Department of Agriculture Food Conservationing, Rationing Office of Price Administration Gas Rationing War Production Board Rubber and Scrap Salvage Federal Security Agency National Nutrition Drive Office of Civilian Defense Air Raid Precautions Department of Labor Child Welfare in Wartime Office of Coordinator of Inter -American Affairs Information on other American Republics War Production Board Conservation of Electric Power Department of Agriculture Conservation of Household Equipment
Department of Department of Department of Department of Department of
Agriculture the Interior Agriculture Interior Agriculture
National Park Service Department of Interior
REGIONAL
Grain Storage Reclamation Campaign Relief for Farm Labor Shortage Promotion of Power Programs Promotion of supply of farm products vital to war Forest Fire Prevention Mine Service Each local area can add scores of items to this imposing list.
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Orders from headquarters leave bivouac area.
by radio
as troops
Sergeant in foreground is tank crew md,mber plotting attack on basis of information radioed from outpost.
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Marine uses portable radio in landing operation.
Portable Army radio outfit operates on maneuvers. Note hand gen-
erator.
Reporting by radio from concealed command car.
Note transmitter key on radio operator's thigh.
Report on enemy aircraft is radioed to concealed artillery at rear.
forces throw out the world are linked to shington by a vast network in Headquarters Command essages are necessarily communication. of military them ar the secrets of our future sent in code -- for in syste i of radio stations in the military operations. Our United States has been a reservoir which provided our Army and Navy with thousands of Skilled specialists who now maintain our important lines of military radio communication. Meanwhile, the services are training thousands of additional men for radio duty on land, on the sea, and in the air. Today, radio is the nerve system of our military might. Crackling messages over the airways will carry the signal of the last great offensive and the first news of the final defeat of our enemies. OUR fighting
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control readings.
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radio room.
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Battery of code keys at message center.
Radio -equipped Army Command Car.
Close-up of Army Field transmitter.
Motorcycle
and side-car
equipped with Radio.
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On April 5, 1942, the United States Army started a new kind of military operation. For the first time in history, the War Department was directly sponsoring and producing a radio program with a definite military objective --"The Army Hour". Since then, the official "Army Hour" has established itself as an integral part of the global fight of the United Nations against
Two Australian fliers, Sgt. John Norman and Sgt. Hilton Greentree, told Army Hour listeners of their experiences in fighting the Japs in the Far
East.
the Axis.
Through the "Army Hour", which is broadcast each Sunday, America and the whole world is getting a weekly view of the progress of the war and how it is being fought. The program reaches to all parts of the globe to tell the story of the United Nations fight, with buck privates telling their important role as prominently as the top-ranking military chiefs.
listeners heard the chatter of machine guns, they were hearing live bullets fired by the gun crew in this photo. Radio microphones enabled the listener to hear also, the bullets striking the target. When
From the West Point air training field, the Army Hour introduced J. H. Weikert, Captain Donald Thur mar and Cadet Vincente Lima Bill Stern, famous sports commentator, describes how it feels to look through a bomb sight and pull the release that will send bombs from U. S. planes to blast the enemy. Behind the scenes in any Army Hour broadcast is Art Feldman, the 'man who gives the signals and makes the check-ups on as high as 25 "switches" on a single program. He is in touch with each remote point, foreign or domestic, until each is off the air.
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A message by Secretary of War Henry Stimson inaugurated the first official War Department radio program.
Lt. Gen. Hugh A. Drum, commander of the First Army, addressed an Army Hour audience. On the same program were: Lt. Generals McNair, Lear, Krueger, and DeWitt.
InstrumeĂątal in planning and arranging each War Department program is Lt. Col. E. M. Kirby, Col. Ernest R. DuPuy, Major General A. D. Suries and Col. R. B. Lovett.
Private
Joe Louis, champion, addressed
listeners, with Col. Art Flynn
and
heavyweight Army Hour
Ned J. O'Brien, James Braddock.
IiIĂŹtR IFOIUIATIOti news, roundtables, speeches, forums, special events and dramatic programs, radio is keeping Americans the most informWith
ed people in the world. To-
day, more than ever before, Americans demand all the facts except those which will give aid and comfort to the enemy. From these truths come American unity and decision. Radio's task is to bring this information to our people as quickly and as clearly as possible.
The first Filipino Battalion in the United States Army staged a demontration for Army Hour listeners.
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When they are not too busy learning the warfare, the Army, Navy and Marine Corpsmethods of can present radio programs with a professional flavor, designed to entertain and inform the folks back home.
Hundreds of radio entertainers, musicians, writers, announcers, production men and specialists the service, and they welcome the opportunity are in to resume association with their former civilian pursuits. Meanwhile, radio listeners, they make it for friends and relatives to visit camps and possible training stations, without moving away from the loud -speaker. Through this medium, radio can claim special tinction for building and maintaining our strong dismorale.
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CURSE OUR
FOREIGN NATIONS. MAY SHE WI COUNTRY. RIG:IT OR WRONG.'.
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Tyrone Power,
of
screen and radio, is sworn in as a private
in the Marine Corps by Maj. Wm. Howard,
U.S.M.C.
Wayne Morris, called to active duty with the Naval Aviation Cadet
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Selection Board, interviews flying cadet applicants.
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favorite
with
autograph seekers.
Rudy
Clark Gable is now serving with the United
Vallee, of the Coast Guard, reporting to Lieut. M. A. Sturges.
States Army Air Forces.
After
his
driving
chores, Robert Young joins the chow lines and loads up his plate.
This Army Air Corps looks on as Sgt. (hon-
orary) McCarthy greets his friend
James Stewart (right). Behind Charley is Edgar Bergen.
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Montgomery,
U.S. Naval attache in
London, salutes 8 year old bomb victim, Alan Locke.
Autry (second from left) finds time to entertain his buddies while training for the Air Corps. Gene
Wayne
King now di-
rects army activities instead of
You Saved
Robert Allen
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For Me".
(left)
gives Drew Pearson the real inside information on army 1ile.
Dave Breger (Left) creator of the "Pri-
vate Breger" cartoons, cuts a piece of birthday cake for his buddy,
Ezra Stone ("Henry Aldrich").
Charles (Buddy)
Rogers (right) reports to Lt. Comdr. C.C.
McCauley prior to taking up his flying duties.
Jimmy Fidler looks on as Joan Davis (heard with Rudy Vallee) bids goodbye to Jimmy Henaghan, Fidler's ace
reporter. Walter Winchell of the United
States
Naval
Reserve is "back in a flash with a flash".
Naval cadets and sailors sing and play for radio audience.
A corner of the barracks serves as rehearsal room for this "jive" group.
Soldiers fresh from field duty accompany,Service Club worker in broadcast.
All sergeants are not "hard-boiled". This one burlesques a "home -makers' " hour, discussing a topic of child apparel that doesn't seem to impress the young admirers.
Radio network correspondents, wearing prescribed uniforms,
port from maneuver areas.
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Aviation cadets at Randolph Field have organized this Glee club for radio appearances.
Soldiers on duty in Washington, D.C. boast this Glee club.
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Buddies gather 'round to enjoy some boogie woogie on a Service Club piano.
Maj. General Hugh Drum faces a battery of
microphones.
No
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spot is too tough for radio special events men.
Here's one following the Army engineers during a river crossing.
Entertainment aboard ship enroute to Australia.
Sailors at Pensacola rehearse before broadcast.
soldier audience at an open air broadcast as seen by performing artists.
The Famous U. S. Marine Corps Band heard on many
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broadcasts.
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of a railroac in the lounge to hear an Time out car headquarters tant broadcast,
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soldiers post.
KEEPING IN TOUCH Wherever they are, in training or in action, U. S. fighting forces look to radio to maintain their association with "home" -- it may be the voice of a friend, word from the home town or news from the good, old U.S.A. It all serves the same purpose for the service men who have no intentions of losing contact with things that were familiar before the war interrupted their lives. Radio does this job, too.
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Above: Erma Moore, secretary to former Governor Francis P. Murphy and assistant treasurer of The Radio
Voice of New Hampshire.
Below: Hervey Carter, WMUR's man-
ager.
Top: The offices and studios of
WMUR
are located
in spacious at 1819 Elm Street, where visitors are always welcome.
quarters
Visitors to the WMUR studios will be greeted by Elaine Richard, WMUR's receptionist and telephone operator. Above:
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Left center: William H. Partlan, vice chairman of the New Hampshire War Bond organization, speaks over WMUR. Left: Manchester's Mayor Wilfred Laflamme at a WMUR microphone. Each month WMUR prepares a special news program which is beamed to the boys overseas by government trans-
mitters.
Above: Lewis Ross, president of the E. M. Chase Company, signs contract with WMUR salesman Warren Brewster for sponsorship of the War Bond promoting Treasury Song Parade.
WMUR's chief engineer Vincent Chandler. His big job is to keep WMUR on the air, always operating at peak efficiency. Here he is checking one of the big tubes that Above:
are the heart of the WMUR transmitter.
Left: WMUR's star studded service flag.
Above: Each Saturday morning at 10:15 WMUR features the Aircraft Warning Service program. Left, Clinton Dow. Right, Attorney
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Above: Erma Moore, secretary to former Governor Francis P. Murphy and assistant treasurer of The Radio
Voice of New Hampshire.
Below: Hervey Carter, WMUR's man-
ager. Top: The offices and studios of
are located in spacious at 1819 Elm Street, where visitors are always wel-
WMUR
quarters come.
Visitors to the WMUR studios will be greeted by Elaine Richard, WMUR's receptionist and telephone operator. Above:
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I'ItOIOTEO O7ER INVUR Above: Movie star Bette Davis appeals for support of the Red Cross War Fund over WMUR.
Top left: WMUR broadcasts from the Bette Davis - Red Cross Ball.
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in North Attica
Left center: William H. Partlan, vice chairman of the New Hampshire War Bond organization, speaks over WMUR.
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Left: Manchester's Mayor Wilfred Laflamme at a WMUR microphone. Each month WMUR prepares a special news program which is beamed to the boys overseas by government trans-
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Above: Lewis Ross, president of the E. M. Chase Company, signs contract with WMUR salesman Warren Brewster for sponsorship of the War Bond promoting Treasury Song Parade.
WMUR's chief engineer Vincent Chandler. His big job is to keep WMUR on the air, always operating at peak efficiency. Here he is checking one of the big tubes that are the heart of the WMUR transmitter. Above:
Left: WMUR's star studded service flag.
Above: Each Saturday morning at 10:15 features the Aircraft Warning Service program. Left, Clinton Dow. Right, Attorney Thomas E. Dolan.
WMUR
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SPORTS,
Above: Your WAC Reporter. day evenings at 8:15.
A WMUR
WTiIIJS presentation Tues-
Above, left: Manchester's Police Chief James F. O'Neil, chairman of the Legion's Americanism Commission, speaks over WMUR during a broadcast of the Legion's jun-
ior baseball series.
Left: Thomas Buffum of the Atlantic Rayon Corporation speaks on the 7:45 A.M. Chicopee News with a short gov-
ernment message.
Below, left: Announcer John Williams at the WMUR 24 hour a day Associated Press News Teletype. Below, right: WMUR's News Editor J. Edwin Gott, second from the left, covers a Governor's news conference as a part of WMUR's independent coverage of important New Hampshire events.
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Below: Eleanore Wolf, WMUR's program director, schedules 17 hours of radio programs a day. Below: New Hampshire's Secretary of State Enoch D.
Fuller, appeals for less absenteeism.
Below: Marion W. MURray, whose wartime hints to housewives are heard on WMUR weekday mornings at 10.
BOIlS
FOR BO1Bs
WMUR provides its facilities for the sale of war bonds. In three days WMUR sold $200,000 in war bonds over the air. WMUR has promoted the sale of millions of dollars of war bonds.
Below: Colonel John I. Moore, commanding officer of Grenier Field, and Mayor Wilfred A. Laflamme appear on a WMUR War Bond program.
Above: Enid Worrell, WMUR bookkeeper, writes War Bonds issued by WMUR as an issuing agency of the United States Treasury.
WMUR
presents stars
of
stage, screen, and radio on the Treasury Song Parade and the Treasury Star Parade. Above: WMUR announcer Dick Bailey selects a Treasury Song Parade from WMUR's
transcription library.
Below: Ernest R. D'Amours,
Assistant Attorney General for the State of New Hampshire, appears on Tickets To B e r l i n, a WMUR war bond program.
Below: Chief Announcer Ed Fitzgerald presents a Treasury Star Parade from Studio C, WMUR's transcription
studio.
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Left:
The U.S.O. program. WMUR's Chief Announcer Ed Fitzgerald with Miss Rita Clark, director of the U.S.O. for Women, at his right.
Below, left: From Grenier Field, Manchester, the Coca-Cola Parade of Spotlight Bands goes coast to coast. Below, right: Leathernecks on Parade. A WMUR feature Tuesdays at 10:45 A.M. WMUR's Musical Director Bert Colter at the organ.
Below: WMUR's Director of Production Bob Engles puts a WAVE recruiting officer on the
air.
Below: What Am I, WMUR's own quiz program originates at the Manchester U.S.O. for Women. WMUR announcers Ed Fitzgerald and John Williams hold
forth.
Below:
Much maintenance work must be done to keep everything in top shape at the transmitter. Here are engineers Ralph Nadeau, Lionel Blanchette and Dexter Freese, top to bottom, on one of the 300 foot high WMUR towers.
Above: WMUR's modern 5,000 watt transmitter is located on the bank of the Merrimack River just north of Manchester.
Below: Engineer Wilbur Remick at the control desk at the
WMUR
transmitter.
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right (the flag's own right), and its staff should be in front of the staff of the other flag. used on a speaker's platform, whether indoors or out, the flag should never be reduced to the role of a mere decoration by being tied into 1111111111111 knots or draped over the stand. For this purpose bunting should be used. The flag, if displayed, should be either on a staff or secured to the wall or back curtain behind the speaker with the union to the flag's right. 3 --When
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