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MOBILE RADIO STATION “GETS AROUND”
ITALY—War weary mean and women of the Allied Fifth Army in Italy are mighty proud of their mobile radio station, officially known as the Fifth Army Mobile American Expeditionary Station, which gets its music and its “big time” programs to them wherever they are—in the front lines, or in rest camps. The hard working crew that moves the station’s ten-unit “circus caravan” of jeeps and trailers, and 2-1/2 ton trucks to various points in the combat area making sure that every group is reached at least once a day, have the moving operation down to a fine point. They can take the station down, move it 50 miles (which is the range of the transmitter), and set it up again, all within less than two hours. Here, in the studio on wheels, T/Sgt. Barney Weadlock, of New York City, the chief announcer, gives out with GI gags on the “old Oaken Bucket” all-request program.
Credit: Acme photo by Sherman Montrose for the War Picture Pool