Thanks! Those items reminded of the times I spent with my grandparents during WWII.
My maternal granddad was a news addict. He took 2 daily newspapers, had the shop radio on during the work day.
Then, he bought a really good am/fm radio for their family room. A whip antenna provided great reception after dark.
He and my grandmother ate their dinners and breakfasts in their family room listening to the radio in WWII.
They had a son in the First Cav, and many grandson’s/nephews in the Navy, Army and Army Air Corp.
Their son and one of the grandsons fixed up an outdoor SW antenna system, not seen from the road. Then, at night they often could get East Coast Cities/NY/DC and later West Coast news after sunset.
They were basically told to only listen to their Short Wave. Then, not talk about stuff they heard on it, unless it was also on the radio news or in a newspaper. Their short wave radio was kept an basically unused bedroom and then stored out of sight when they didn’t listen to it.
My grand dad had cousins living the UK, in London, Hastings and Cornwall. Any letters from these UK relatives were heavily censored by the Civil Service people.
My grandmother kept all the letters my dad sent home from the war. I have them in a trunk. He had access to a camera during the war. I have the pictures he took and put in his WW2 scrapbook.