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[HCDX] VOA signoff phrase from 1940's
I've received the following request from a visitor to our club
website http://radiodx.com/
Does anyone know or remember what the phrase was for the VOA sign off
to the Philippines would have been in the 1940's during WW2 and what
the English translation was?
Or what the translation of his phrase below is?
Also would anyone have an audio clip/recording of the old VOA sign
off from that era?
Any help appreciated.
Regards
Mark Nicholls
Chief Editor
New Zealand DX Times
New Zealand Radio DX League
http://radiodx.com/
Subject: A long time ago.
To: editor@xxxxxxxxxxx
Dear Sir;
I served in the Philippines area during WW2, was a radio technician aboard a
Jeep carrier, U.S.S. Shamrock Bay CVE 84. We used to listen to the broadcasts
from Voice of America to the Filippinos every evening around 6:00 pm local
time.
And the Voice always signed off with a phrase that sounded something
like,
"Aun Buhai aun Filippino". After all these years my extended family , uses
that phrase instead of ,"goodbye" when we part company.
Do you have any record of the phrase and do you have any meaning for
it?
I wish to add that after the war I married a Filippino-Polish girl and we had
58 wonderful years together, she just passed out of my life about two months
ago. She was born in the USA , and I want to leave my family with the true
meaning of the phrase.
Thanking you for any and all help in this matter, I am. sincerely,
Tom
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