Re: [IRCA] Radio Club Newsletters from WW2

[Russ Edmunds <wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx>]

Found the book - or at least my 'good' copy - upstairs in my den. There's a mention of a man named Gus Magnuson who reported at the end of the War that he had personally relayed some 3,368 POW messages. Nothing else beyond that.


Russ 


--- On Sun, 3/31/13, David Hochfelder <dhochfelder@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: David Hochfelder <dhochfelder@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [IRCA] Radio Club Newsletters from WW2
> To: "Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America" <irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "abdx" <ABDX@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Sunday, March 31, 2013, 6:32 PM
> Hi Fellow DXers,
> 
> I'm working on a history project about shortwave listeners
> who monitored
> Axis broadcasts for POW messages, then wrote to the families
> of POW's to
> alert them of their loved ones' fate. Interestingly enough,
> the federal
> government and military were none too happy about this
> practice. The
> National Archives records of the Foreign Broadcast
> Intelligence Service and
> Office of War Information contain correspondence with the
> major radio clubs
> at the time. Would anyone have any leads on obtaining club
> newsletters and
> publications from World War 2?
> 
> I'm particularly interested in these: Victory Radio Club,
> Newark News Radio
> Club, Universal Radio DX Club, and National Radio Club. I
> used to belong to
> the NRC but let my subscription lapse.
> 
> Thanks and 73,
> 
> Dave Hochfelder
> Albany, NY
> 
> -- 
> David Hochfelder
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> Associate Director, Public History Program
> Department of History
> Social Science 119
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