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Every patriotic holiday we're reminded that America was better prepared to support a war effort throughout the Golden Age of Radio than ever before in it’s history.

Radio's contribution from the end of World War I throughout the years of World War II, and from the beginning of The Cold War Era is unprecendented in American History. Hundred of thousands of hours of entertainment were devoted to War Efforts, Public Service Announcments, and Propaganda. The Advertising Industry as well, expended every effort to support these war efforts, by highlighting the efforts of manufacturers, homeland civil defense, rationing, and veterans abroad in support of War and it’s Wartime Economy.

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The patriotic posters and propaganda that emerged from these periods are some of the most compelling and beautiful ads and posters in American History. They were informative, cautionary, inspirational, and above all, extraordinarily persuasive. This is one area of the spotlight that is almost impossible to capture with words alone. The posters and ads say it all far more eloquently.

As we remember our Veterans, we're reminded what it was we were all fighting for--on the homefront and abroad, as well.

Here then, our sampling of some of the more memorable, compelling, and persuasive wartime support materials from the Golden Age of Radio era.

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