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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2018 : Issue 5
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  WNEW-AM, New York, 10:45pm, November  [ Jonathan Ott <jott321@[removed]; ]

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Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2018 15:11:28 -0500
From: Jonathan Ott <jott321@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  WNEW-AM, New York, 10:45pm, November 10, 1944, News Parade Show
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Hi,

I was hoping somebody could tell me the name of a radio host in a recording I
have from 10:45pm, November 10th, 1944, from WNEW-AM, New York, the "News
Parade Show".  The recording is two minutes, 43 seconds long. My father was
Staff Sergeant Matthew J. Ott who is mentioned in the recording. I have three
separate 78 recordings of the same "News Parade Show".

Here's a link to the recording. Hopefully the scratches won't be too bad as to
keep one from hearing the host speak. At the bottom of the email is a
transcription into text of the recording.

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Plus, if somebody knows of anything interesting about the host himself and/or
the "News Parade Show", I would also appreciate anything you can tell me.

Also, does somebody know anything about Gordon Williams who did the report in
the recording and how did his recording make its way from the South Pacific to
New York? I know he was an Australian war news correspondent. I believe at the
time Gordon Williams he was in Leyte Island and was not in Australia itself
when he did "his recording". Technically speaking, how did Gordon Williams's
recording from Leyte Island finally make its make back to New York for a
"live" broadcast? Was Gordon Williams' recording also on a 78 or something
like that? By the way, the actual act of my father the broadcast is speaking
about occurred on October 23rd, 1944. He was awarded the "Silver Star".

Thank you,

Jonathan Ott

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Radio broadcast from 10:45pm, November 10th, 1944
WNEW-AM New York City, News Parade Show

Unknown radio host is [removed]

Staff Sergeant Matthew Ott, PFC William Nathan, PFC John Ciber, Captain
Charles B. Hall, these are the names of fighting men from New York and New
Jersey who are singled out for heroic behavior during the attack and capture
of Leyte Island. [11 seconds of patriotic marching music]. For WNEW, News
Parade brings you a special edition of its weekly feature News From the
Pacific, the communique's from the Pacific reveal new and greater victories by
General MacArthur and the allied Armies and Navies. Tonight we bring you a
firsthand account of the hard hitting Victory Division's landing at Leyte and
of the outstanding heroism shown by its men who are determined to retake the
Philippines and gain new ground closer to the heart of Tokyo. We bring you now
by short-wave transcription a report by Gordon Williams in Australia who
describes the Leyte landings. Mr. Williams opens his report with a review of
the courageous exploits of Staff Sergeant Matthew Ott of Camden, New Jersey.
We're standing by Australia come [removed]

"O" "T" "T", will always be recalled.

He's the son of Mr. and Mrs. Pierson Ott, 2912 Congress Road, Camden, New
Jersey. And he was on a ridge near the town of Palo, an important feature
commanding the approach to a strategic hill. His company was ordered to
withdrawal so that the enemy positions could be attacked with artillery and
mortars. Part of the outfit had been withdrawn when the Japanese suddenly
launched a strong counter attack from their side of the ridge. Ott, already
partly down, returned quickly to the vine swept crest, carried two of his men
who were wounded to safety then went back up hill to help throw the enemy
back. As a result of the spirit and devotion to duty such as that show by Ott,
the attack was repulsed with rifle fire and grenade, and the company continued
its precise withdrawal to make way for the artillery that soon afterwards
broke up the enemy concentration. Ought Ott that his story be simply told
without embellishment, and there it is, stated in bare outline. But, I can
quote the words of his battalion commander Lieutenant Colonel Thomas E.
Clifford, who said and I quote, I cannot praise his actions to highly unquote
nor could anyone who experienced the fury of a Japanese Banzai counter attack
in that hotly contested area. It was the act of a brave man. Notable even in a
place where thousands were brave.

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