Classic Radio Theater Special - the 80th celebration of V-J Day

The news stories of Victory in Japan day, August 14, 1945, 80 years ago. 

In addition we hear the Fred Waring show from August 14, 1945 with a live shortwave report from Jack Benny in Europe.  

Then Command Performance, from August 14, 1945, Victory Extra.  The program begins with a prayer by Ronald Colman, followed by "Ave Maria," sung by Rise Stevens. Bing Crosby hosts the show as Bob Hope is in Europe.  Performers included Rise Stevens, Dinah Shore, Bette Davis, Jimmy Durante, Jose Iturbi, Lionel Barrymore, Marlene Dietrich, Burgess Meredith, Ginny Simms, Frank Sinatra, Janet Blair, William Powell, Harry Von Zell, Lucille Ball, The King Sisters, Cary Grant, Robert Montgomery, Loretta Young, and Lena Horne.

We close with Fourteen August as broadcast on CBS August 14, 1945.  A moving and dramatic anti-war reading written on short notice by Norman Corwin and read by Orson Welles.