Get this and get it straight. Crime is a suckers road and those who travel it wind up in the gut of the prison of the grave.

The story you are about to hear is true, only the names have been changed to protect the innocent.

The Adventures of Sam Spade Detective.

The Adventures of the Saints starring Vincent Prize

Bob Bailey in the exciting adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account

America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator.

Yours truly, Johnny Deller. And the Hello and welcome to this week's bonus episode of Down These Mean Streets coming

to you this week on Veterans Day when we in the United States stopped to

honor the Americans who so bravely served our country in the armed forces and

around the world November 11th also marks Armistus Day and Remembrance Day, commemorating

the end of World War I.

So today, in honor of those men and women who put their lives on the line to protect

our lives here at home, we'll hear a series that was produced especially for our

fighting forces during the Second World War.

Its Command Performance, the weekly showcase that helped to launch the Armed Forces Radio Service.

Broadcast exclusively for soldiers and civilians in the service, Command Performance presented the biggest stars of the day in sketches and songs to keep up morale. the

biggest stars of the day and sketches and songs to keep up morale. The show was designed to bring some of the comforts of home to troops stationed all around the world.

As the announcer said each week, command performance would entertain the troops till it's

over, over there.

Command performance went on the air in March of 1942, and its popularity led the Office of War

information to create the Armed Forces radio service. Networks would transcribe some of their programs and send them to the AFRS so they could be shared with troops stationed all around the world.

Now the AFRS was not only a benefit for the men and women fighting far from home.

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