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New to the JACKSONVILLE RADIO COLLECTION...History in sound.

VIETNAM WAR RADIO SOUNDTRACK

The Vietnam Radio Sound Montage is a compilation of clips--mostly from Billy Williams daily radio broadcasts over the American Forces Vietnam Network (AFVN) .

AFVN provided a soundtrack for the war using a network of powerful transmitters that produced ubiquitous signals to permeate South Vietnam with news and entertainment.

At night, skywave propagation carried AFVN's sound throughout southeastern Asia and into India, Australia and Indonesia.

It's retro time travel. Hear American radio as it sounded in South Vietnam during the war. Included are top 40 hits, obscure tunes and favorite "anthems" that produced many requests.

VIETNAM IN RETROSPECT

Fifty years ago, the Vietnam War raged.

The Eastern World, it is explodin', Violence flarin', Bullets loadin' as one song's lyrics stated.

American and Allied combat troops fought in the Vietnam War from early 1965 until the Paris Peace Accords ended U.S. involvement in early 1973.

Americans in the combat zone included Amateur Radio operators. They served in the Signal Corps and other military branches as radio operators, linemen, electronic technicians, broadcast engineers, MARS operators and in numerous other military occupational specialties.

Vietnam brings back bad memories to some veterans while others welcome revisiting their time in the combat zone. Today, American tourism is big business in Vietnam.

A listener observed......."The music was rock and roll and the beat was like the sounds of the choppers and without even thinking about it, the war's soundtrack was the sound of choppers and rock and roll. I could hear war in the music.

"The music around us and the sounds of airplanes and choppers were there because of the war and it was impossible to hear them without feeling the presence of the war."

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NOFARS.net
Editor: Billy Williams, N4UF
P.O. Box 9673
Jacksonville, FL 32208-0673
ph: 904-765-3230
n4uf@nofars.net