Title: Script of 'On a Note of Triumph'
Description: Radio script that is a praise song to all the men and women in all the nations who fought on all the fronts on World War II. Norman Corwin looks beyond the joy, pain, and relief of the end of combat to a hopeful future that will restore civilization. Always the ordinary citizens are foremost in his thoughts and words. This script and performance are is a bookend to the wartime broadcasts of Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt. It is a classic of literature and history that Has been replayed on anniversaries to new generations of admirers.
Subjects: World War II radio broadcasts, V-E Day, WWII soldiers, WWII sailors, WWII Marines, WWII Airmen, WWII civilians, Challenge of Post-WWII
Places: Battlefields of WWII, Post WWII landscapes
Time periods: WW II