The Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of Bob Hope’s best-selling book about his travels, visiting U.S. Troops overseas. Original Air Date: January 8, 1945 Click here to add to Itunes.
Archive for the ‘Lux Radio Theatre’ category
Episode 239: I Never Left Home
Episode 178: Guadalcanal Diary
The Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of the 1943 movie about the Marine campaign on Guadalcanal. Original Air Date: February 28, 1944 Click here to add to Itunes.
Episode 172: Salute to the Marines
A Marine retires to a pacifist colony in the Philippines, having never seen battle. Original Air Date: November 8, 1943 Click here to add to Itunes.
Episode 158: The Navy Comes Through
A chief petty officer (Pat O’Brien) clashes with a newly enlisted former officer (George Murphy) whose career the Chief Petty Officer helped in from Lux Radio Theatre. Original Air Date: May 3, 1943 Click here to add to Itunes.
Episode 147: Hitler’s Children
An American girl of German descent is taken and forced into the dark world of Hitler’s Germany. From Lux Radio Theatre Original Air Date: May 24, 1943 Click here to add to Itunes.
Episode 144: China
A man who sells gasoline to both sides encounters an American woman and Chinese children who are fleeing from the Japanese. Original Air Date: November 22, 1943 Click here to add to Itunes.
Episode 118: This is the Army
The Lux Radio Theatre of the Irving Berlin’s World War 2 classic musical. Original Air Date: February 22, 1943 Click here to add to Itunes.
Episode 109: The War Against Mrs. Hadley
A wealthy matriarch struggles with the changes that the war brings to her life. From the Lux Radio Theatre. Original Air Date: December 7, 1942 Click here to add to Itunes.
Episode 100: My Favorite Blonde
A vaudeville performer (Bob Hope) with a trained penguin gets mixed up with a female British agent who needs to deliver an encoded jewel to Los Angeles. Original Air Date: October 1942 Click here to add to Itunes.
Episode 074: So Proudly We Hail
The story of nurses serving in the Pacific as chronicled in the Oscar-nominated film with all-star case. Original Air Date: November 1, 1943 Click here to add to Itunes.
Episode 066: Wake Island
A group of Marines fights the Japanese Navy against overwhelming odds. From the Lux Radio Theatre. Original Air Date: October 26, 1942/ Click here to add to Itunes.
Episode 015: Buck Privates
The Lux Radio Theater presents the adaptation of the classic story of Abbott and Costello joining the army. Original Air Date: October 13, 1941
Episode 003: The Reluctant Warriors, Part Three: A Farewell to Arms
Clark Gable stars in this radio version of the 1932 film version of the classic Hemingway novel. Original Air Date: April 5, 1937 You can subscribe the War in itunes by clicking here or for all other feed readers click here.