Re: [IRCA] Radio Club Newsletters from WW2

[John Callarman <johncallarman@xxxxxxx>]

A shortwave DXer, Bill Roemer, from Bowling Green, Kentucky, was well-known for his relay of messages from WW II POWs to their families in America. He was a member of, at least, the Universal Radio DX Club. You could try to make contact with Jerry Berg, who has collected a great amount of SWBC DX historical material. (aka Jerome S. Berg.)  I Googled Bill Roemer, Bowling Green, Kentucky ... and one of the first hits was a story in the Bowling Green newspaper on David Roemer, a 48-year-old Bowling Green firefighter, who began his birdwatching hobby on his grandfather, Bill Roemer's farm. Perhaps he might be aware of the family lore, etc.

John Callarman, KA9SPA, Family Genealogist, Retired Newspaper Editor, DX-oyente, Krum TX (AKA Qal R. Mann, Krumudgeon)
 > Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2013 15:17:00 -0700
> From: wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx
> To: irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [IRCA] Radio Club Newsletters from WW2
> 
> Oops - pardon this - it was intended to go only to Dave
> 
> Russ Edmunds
> 15 mi NNW of Philadelphia  
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> <wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx>
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> 
> --- On Mon, 4/8/13, Russ Edmunds <wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > From: Russ Edmunds <wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Subject: Re: [IRCA] Radio Club Newsletters from WW2
> > To: "Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America" <irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Monday, April 8, 2013, 6:08 PM
> > 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
> > > Assistant Professor
> > > Associate Director, Public History Program
> > > Department of History
> > > Social Science 119
> > > University at Albany, SUNY
> > > Albany, NY 12222
> > > 518-442-5348
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