To mark the 80th anniversary of the D-Day invasion, the Golden Age of Radio will present actual broadcasts from that fateful day when it meets on Thursday, June 6, 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.

Time permitting, Golden Age of Radio will also play requests from its extensive collection of timeless radio broadcasts on cassette tapes and CDs. The Golden Age of Radio Bruce Florence Library is available to all members of the Activity Center, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday.

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.