Lileks put an MP3 on his website of the Kate Smith show after D-Day. Scroll down toward the bottom.

This is a broadcast from the day after D-Day – the Kate Smith show. When I was a kid Kate Smith was a punchline, usually girth-related; she sang “God Bless America,” and that was all I knew, and all I needed to know. She was much more, of course – almost the Oprah of her day, with radio shows that ran across the decade. This show, from June 7 1944, is notable for its frank shared patriotic content, as well as the seamless integration of its ads for Sanka. Not exactly riveting to modern ears, but put it in context; it’s aimed at the housewives - the ones standing over the sink wringing out a towel over and over and over again, worrying about a husband or son or son-in-law or a son of a friend. Everyone knew someone in the war, and this was the day the war began to end. Began: that’s the word. The beginning of the end can seem agonizingly far from the end itself.