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GI Journal ran from 1944 to 1945 and has many famous guest such as Bing Crosby, Jack Benny, Bob Hope and many others. The variety show featured comedy skits and musical numbers to entertain the troops abroad. Click here to read more about G I Journal

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Please enjoy these 96 old time radio episodes:

Air Date	Title	Synopsis
10.27.1944	gi journal (066) first song lili marlene	+ AFRS origination. What will the postwar world will be like? The first tune is, "Lili Marlene," sun...
11.17.1944	gi journal (069) first song is you is or is you ain't	+ AFRS origination. The first tune is, "Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby?" The program originates f...
11.24.1944	gi journal (071) first song blue room	+ AFRS origination. Arthur Treacher threatens to leave service as butler to Robert Benchley. The fir...
12.01.1944	gi journal (071) first song – blue room	+ AFRS origination. Arthur Treacher threatens to leave service as butler to Robert Benchley. The fir...
12.01.1944	gi journal (072) guest robert benchley	+ AFRS origination. Arthur Treacher threatens to leave service as butler to Robert Benchley. The fir...
12.08.1944	gi journal (072) jack haley gets a date	+ AFRS origination. Jack Haley gets a date with Ann Rutherford's "sister!" Mel Blanc appears as "Pri...
12.15.1944	gi journal (074) first song when he comes home	+ AFRS origination. The first tune is "When He Comes Home," sung by The Pied Pipers. The cast does, ...
12.15.1944	gi journal (073) guest orson welles, connie haines	+ AFRS origination. The first tune is "When He Comes Home," sung by The Pied Pipers. The cast does, ...
12.22.1944	gi journal (074) first song – young man with a horn	+ AFRS origination. The first tune is, "Young Man With A Horn." Louella Parsons applies for a job wi...
12.22.1944	gi journal (075) first song young man with a horn	+ Program #74. AFRS origination. The first tune is, "Young Man With A Horn." Louella Parsons applies...
12.29.1944	gi journal (075) first song – sweet georgia brown	+ AFRS origination. The first tune is, "Sweet Georgia Brown." The search for "The Most Perfect Man" ...
12.29.1944	gi journal (076) first song sweet georgia brown	+ AFRS origination. The first tune is, "Sweet Georgia Brown." The search for "The Most Perfect Man" ...
01.05.1945	gi journal (077) guest jack carson	+ AFRS origination. A trip out to the "wild west." Mel Blanc appears as private "Sad Sack."
01.12.1945	gi journal (078) first song my ideal	+ AFRS origination. The first tune Frankie sings is, "My Ideal." Frank and "Fibber McGee and Moly" a...
01.12.1945	gi journal (077) guest fibber mcgee and molly	+ AFRS origination. The first tune Frankie sings is, "My Ideal." Frank and "Fibber McGee and Moly" a...
01.18.1945	gi journal (078) first song there goes that song again
01.26.1945	gi journal (080) guest william bendix, arthur treacher	+ AFRS origination. William Bendix messes up the opening joke by mis-spelling the word "d-o-g." The ...
02.23.1945	gi journal (083) guest burns and allen
03.09.1945	gi journal (086) first song jeepers creepers	+ AFRS origination. The first tune is, "Jeepers, Creepers." Kay hasn't had much success with the gir...
03.09.1945	gi journal (085) guest groucho marx, lucille ball	+ AFRS origination. Mel Torme sings, "Jeepers Creepers." The program features a very funny expeditio...
03.16.1945	gi journal (086) first song – you belong to my heart	+ AFRS origination. The first tune is, "You belong To My Heart." Bing has a barracks fantasy when a ...
03.16.1945	gi journal (087) guest jack benny, paulette goddard
03.23.1945	gi journal (087) first song atcheson, topeka, and sante fe
03.30.1945	gi journal (088) first song nobody's sweetheart
04.06.1945	gi journal (089) guest robert benchley, linda darnell	+ AFRS origination. The first tune is a swing arrangement of, "In The Hall Of The Mountain King." Th...

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This show stars Robert Benchley as m.c., Mel Blanc, Linda Darnell, Dick Aurandt and the Armed Forces Radio Orchestra, Allen Jenkins, Connie Haines and Verna Felton. Harry Mitchell announces. It's the same show as that listed at 03.30.1945.

Steve LaVere

Like it's more famous cousin Command Performance, G.I. Journal was a transcribed series, edited together from separately recorded segments. The program was formatted as a military newspaper with each program’s guest host credited as "editor-in-chief," and the individual segments introduced as "columns." G.I. Journal aired from 1944 through 1946 over the Armed Forces Radio Service.

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