Henry Gorrell - Bombing of Navarino Bay: Soldiers of the Press (November 9, 1942)

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“Henry Gorrell - Bombing of Navarino Bay” is an episode of Soldiers of the Press, the old-time radio show, first broadcast November 9, 1942. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

United Press correspondent Henry Gorrell joins the crew of Lieutenant Clay Jorgensen on a daytime bombing mission against enemy shipping in Navarino Bay, Greece. Gorrell is aboard the bomber named the Witch, the last plane over the target. The crew faces anti-aircraft fire and enemy fighters on the approach. The episode is part of the Soldiers of the Press series, first broadcast on November 9, 1942.

A United States heavy bombardment air force base in the Middle East, and a bomber flying over Navarino Bay, Greece, during World War II.

Characters: Henry Gorrell, Lieutenant Clay Jorgensen, Norman Frost, Peter Vlahockeys, Robert Goldberg, Henry Spanger, Joseph Byrne, Donald Allen

Listen for: The interphone exchanges between crew members during the bombing run, and the moment Frost is wounded in the knee while the gunners fight off the pursuit planes.

Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.