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The Start of Armed Forces Radio Service 
By Ivan (Jack) Saddler


Star Spangled Radio
By Jack Saddler


Early VOA Station KSAI Saipan
By Jack Saddler  


ISLAND PROGRAMS  Notes on the Army-Operated Network in the Pacific BattleZones 
By LAWRENCE LADER


Happy Birthday Bob Hope!
By Ivan (Jack) Saddler


Armed Forces Radio After World War II
By Edward A. Sharpe Archivist SMECC 


 

A Broadcast  Engineer in Korea

What it was like, bouncing around the Korean Hills 
with the Armed Forces Radio Service

 

by JOHN D. HARMER
Transmitter Engineer
WCOL, Columbus, Ohio
 ©Radio. TV and Recording "Technician - Engineer" : June 1957  

 

AFKN is the Armed Forces Radio and Television Service "Armed Forces Korea Network" ...

The Patch is a RCA type microphone and it says VAGABOND......for radio Vagabond

Visit the AFKN alumni site here: 

 

 


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