To mark the 81st anniversary of the D-Day invasion, Golden Age of Radio will present actual broadcasts from that fateful day when it meets Thursday, June 5, at 1 p.m. in the Fountain Hills Community Center.

On the first Tuesday of June 1944, the U.S.-led Allied forces mounted the most ambitious and biggest amphibious invasion in history, according to a press release.  It was D-Day and the battle for Europe was on.

That evening, the regularly scheduled Bob Hope radio program was briefly pre-empted by a talk from President Roosevelt. When the Bob Hope show went back on the air, the script was abandoned and listeners heard a special tribute to the military.

Many classic radio programs are archived in the Golden Age of Radio’s Bruce Florence Library, an extensive collection of timeless radio broadcasts on records, cassette tapes and CDs.

Membership in the Community Center is required to attend meetings of the Golden Age of Radio. For more information, contact Bill Whittaker at 480-837-7961 or the Community Center at 480-816-5200.

From the twilight of the Jazz Age to the dawn of the Space Age, the Golden Age of Radio celebrates the reign of the first electronic medium, the then-modern miracle that brought news, entertainment and information into homes throughout a significant period of history.