Great music to restore by!!!!

[Private_collector]

Rob,

I'm with you!

I love the music of the 1940s. I play it often. I also play some of the WWII news reports and speeches, in my workshop while I am working. Sometimes I even stop to listen better. As you say, great to restore by! Helps to keep motivation up, as well as increase the knowledge. Sometimes I wonder what my Father would have been thinking as he heard of the more critical developments while he was serving in New Guinea. He was in an infantry battalion and was (ironically) also a driver/mechanic on CMPs.
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Some of the news reports are VERY inspiring. Favorite of mine is a broadcast from Gen Eisenhower which starts with "People of western europe.....". It was broadcast in the days following D-Day. Imagine being the recipient of that broadcast, knowing your liberation was nearing. Gives me goosebumps every time I hear it.
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Disks of WWII news can be bought from ebay VERY cheaply. I got some from U.K and also U.S.A. Don't think any were over $10.00 AUD, plus postage of roughly $5.00 AUD.

I would heartily recommend these. By closest tally, I believe I have approx 500-600hrs of broadcasts, including all of the BBC broadcasts of June 6, 1944. They are split into one hour sections for easy management.

Do yourselves a favor, get em & listen for yourself!
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The last photo is of my Father (standing with arms up) with other men of his battalion, at time they first heard of the Japanese surrender.
God rest his soul.
Lest We Forget

P.S: Notice what is in the background of the last photo. Keith Webb spotted it immediately when I posted this pic once before. Hawke Eye!