In this 1947 photo, VOA employee Harry Branton locates the origin of some of the mail sent from Voice of America listeners in Germany.
open wire lines and rows of pole disconnects that had to be adjusted in all weather conditions.
A Welcome Voice from Home On September 23, 1944, Bethany Station began broadcasting twenty- four hours a day. It was the most powerful broadcasting relay station in the world and the only one capable of reaching into the darkest corners of a world at war. During World War II Bethany Station not only sent the truth of the day to war-ravaged countries, it also served American servicemen. Charlie Stinger, who now helps with restoration at the Bethany Station site, recalls: “I was serving in Italy at the beginning of World War II, and I would listen to VOA. When I returned home it meant a great deal to be asked to work at the Bethany
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A technician works at a recording console in the Voice of America headquar- ters in Washington, DC, in this 1954 picture.
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