This week we feature, Command Performance and their second episode starring Fred Waring and Joe Louis This episode aired March 9, 1942.

Fred Waring (b. June 9, 1900 - d. July 29, 1984) was a popular musician, bandleader and radio-television personality.

Joe Louis (b. May 13, 1914 - d. April 12, 1981) was a very famous professional African-American boxer, known as "The Brown Bomber."

Command Performance aired from 1942 to 1949, on the Armed Forces Radio Network (AFRS) and transmitted by shortwave to the troops overseas — with few exceptions, it was not broadcast over domestic U.S. radio stations.

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