We’ve previously written about the prisoner of war broadcasts of World War 2, and eighty years ago today, the Washington Evening Star of February 16, 1943, carried this report of one such broadcast. Col. Richard G. Rogers was being held prisoner in Formosa, and recorded a message to his family in America. As often happened, listeners in America sent news to his family. There were many such letters sent in these cases, as documented in the book Letters of Compassion, but this is the first case I’ve heard of where one listener sent a phonograph record of the broadcast, undoubtedly recorded on their Recordio.