[HCDX] AFRS Radio in China-Burma-India in WWII

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"The Forgotten Theater' or,
'XONE 1480 kilocycles, your Armed Forces Radio station in Peking'
AFRS Radio in China-Burma-India 1944


If you lived in Peking [Beijing today] in 1944, you could set your
radio dial at 1480 AM, settle back with a cold beer, and enjoy the
latest swing music, Hollywood gossip, and US sports results from your
local Armed Forces Radio Service station.

XONE Peking was one of eighteen such AFRS outlets scattered across
China and broadcasting to US forces and all but forgotten today.

The Radio Heritage Foundation has tracked down information about
these stations, and details are on-line now at www.radioheritage.net.

Learn what actor Gene Hackman thought of his days working at XABU
Tsingtao on 1580 AM, and read an original listener confirmation
letter sent from XMAG Nanking [1540 AM] to a listener in New Zealand.

Another twenty-eight stations extended across 'India' from Karachi to
Dacca to Delhi, up into the borderlands between India and China, and
with more scattered along the notorious Ledo road from Ledo to
Myitkyina in Burma.

Again, after extensive research, you can find details of these
stations at www.radioheritage.net. Find answers to questions like why
was the USAF station at Myitkyina called 'The Half Way House' and
check out the photo of the station crew sitting in front of their
forgotten radio station alongside the Irrawaddy River.

>From VU2ZU Calcutta to VU2ZX Karachi, and as far south as Kandy in
[then] Ceylon, the Indian airwaves pulsated with jazz, the crooners
like Bing, the big bands, the female super stars and Englishmen shook
their heads into their gin and tonics with disbelief. Every radio set
for sale within 400 miles of Delhi was sold when VU2ZY came on air!

The Radio Heritage Foundation asks for help to fill in so many
knowledge gaps about these [almost] 'forgotten fifty' AFRS stations
in the 'Forgotten Theater' of WWII.

If you have any stories, names of personnel, images, recordings,
program schedules, or any memorabilia at all about these AFRS
stations in China-Burma-India you can share, please contact us either
via the website [www.radioheritage.net] or direct to
info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 

We want to switch the light on in this theater, and honor and
remember those who built the towers in Chungking, spun the discs in
Delhi, and ran the sing-alongs in Tsingtao. And, drank the beer in
Beijing whilst tuned to 'XONE 1480 kilocycles, your Armed Forces
Radio station in Peking'!

Warm regards
David Ricquish
Radio Heritage Foundation
www.radioheritage.net









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