{"id":65029,"date":"2025-12-27T05:57:34","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T09:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=65029"},"modified":"2025-12-27T08:03:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T12:03:25","slug":"video-when-shortwave-radio-connected-soldiers-overseas-with-their-families-in-wwii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/video-when-shortwave-radio-connected-soldiers-overseas-with-their-families-in-wwii\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: When Shortwave Radio Connected Soldiers Overseas with Their Families in WWII"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor Fred Waterer, who writes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@TheHistoryGuyChannel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The History Guy<\/a>&#8221; (a terrific YouTube channel) talks about the technical marvel of uniting the four radio networks and soldiers overseas via shortwave at Christmas 1942 and 1943.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xiS4Imqs47M?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xiS4Imqs47M\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to view on YouTube.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Fred Waterer, who writes: &#8220;The History Guy&#8221; (a terrific YouTube channel) talks about the technical marvel of uniting the four radio networks and soldiers overseas via shortwave at Christmas 1942 and 1943. Click here to view on YouTube.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,305,288,43],"tags":[3435,2729,4091,1302,11007,676],"class_list":["post-65029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-radio-history","category-shortwave-radio","tag-command-performance","tag-fred-waterer","tag-radio-history","tag-radio-nostalgia","tag-the-history-guy","tag-wwii"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-gUR","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":63038,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/hallicrafters-1944-film-voice-of-victory\/","url_meta":{"origin":65029,"position":0},"title":"Hallicrafters\u2019 1944 Film, &#8220;Voice of Victory&#8221;","author":"Thomas","date":"May 29, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Fred Waterer, who writes: I've fallen down a YouTube rabbit hole. 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