In Breaking Walls episode 153 we spend Independence Day 1944 with an anxious home front eagerly pushing towards American victory in World War II. —————————— Highlights: • The Battle for the Caen • Norman Corwin From CBS To Pearl Harbor • Vic and Sade Play Cards on Fourth of July • Raymond Scott & Independence Day Celebrations Around the Country • Tom Mix and Hop Harrigan Fight The War • Norman Corwin in England with Edward R. Murrow • The Ginny Simms Purple Heart Show • A Date With Judy’s Election Mixup • Theater of Romance Presents Goodbye Mr. Chips • The Molle Mystery Theater • Words At War • Norman Corwin’s Home For the Fourth • Looking Ahead to Stars on Suspense in 1944 —————————— The WallBreakers: thewallbreakers.com Subscribe to Breaking Walls everywhere you get your podcasts. To support the show: patreon.com/TheWallBreakers —————————— The reading material used in today’s episode was: • On The Air — By John Dunning • Network Radio Ratings — By Jim Ramsburg As well as articles and features from • Broadcasting Magazine • The Chicago Tribune • LIFE Magazine • The Los Angeles Times • The New Yorker • The New York Daily News • Radio Daily • The Saturday Evening Post —————————— On the interview front: • Norman Corwin, Hal Peary, Karl Swenson, Russell Thorson, Joan Tompkins, and Willard Waterman spoke with Chuck Schaden. Hear these full chats at Speakingofradio.com. • Jackson Beck, Raymond Edward Johnson, Joe Julian, Arnold Moss, and Bill Spier spoke to Dick Bertel and Ed Corcoran for WTIC’s The Golden Age of Radio. Hear these interviews at Goldenage-WTIC.org • Norman Corwin was with John Dunning for his 1980s 71KNUS Radio program from Denver. —————————— Thank you to: Tony Adams Steven Allmon Glenn B. John M. Baker Dale Bonifant Orson Orsen Chandler Phil Erickson Ray Greenberg Kevin Halstead Jessica Hanna Perri Harper Ed Howell Thomas M. Joyce Ryan Kramer Gerrit Lane Kevin McLaughlin Earl Millard Andrew Milner Gary Mollica Ursula Moran-Stearns Barry Nadler Christian Neuhaus John R. Nicholson Maureen Scully Ray Shaw Filipe A Silva Terry Wallace John Williams Jim W. WildEyeWheel —————————— WallBreakers Links: Patreon - patreon.com/thewallbreakers Social Media - @TheWallBreakers