Allies on the Airwaves
Patrick Morley tells how a small wartime radio network for us troops in Britain in 1943 provoked a fierce reaction from certain quarters at the BBC
The strains and tensions undergone by the Anglo-American alliance during the Second World War have been extensively chronicled. Mostly these accounts deal with relations at a senior military or political level or on a purely personal basis. But fresh light on what has been called the 'uneasy alliance' emerges from a study of an unlikely aspect of the war – the relationship between the most prestigious broadcasting organisation in Britain and what was no more than a fledgling 'GI Network'.
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