The Royal Norwegian Airforce

The NYPR Archive Collections | Jan 1, 2000

The exact date of this episode is unknown. We've filled in the date above with a placeholder. What we actually have on record is: 1942-uu-uu.

Performer Host, Gladys M. Petch ; performers and narrator unidentified.
Note Broadcast on WNYC, 1942.
Summary Radio program "Norway Fights On" broadcast over WNYC by the Royal Norwegian Information Services, New York office. "The Royal Norwegian Air Force" features a dramatization of the NAZI invasion of Norway and the evolution of a young university student into a member of a Norwegian flight crew attached to the British RAF on a bombing run over Germany.
Note Episode title from the National Library of Norway.
Local Note MSU: Gift of Bernhard Wichert.
Subject Bombardiers -- Norway -- Drama.
Bombing, Aerial -- Germany -- Rhineland -- Drama.
Norway -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945.
Genre War radio programs.
Fiction radio programs.
Additional Author Petch, Gladys, host.
Added Author Norske informasjonstjeneste i Amerika.
WNYC (Radio station : New York, N.Y.)
Uniform Title Norway fights on (Radio program)
Other Title Episode of the Royal Norwegian Air Force.


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