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{{short description|Record label}} {{about||the digital media format|Videodisc|the digital virtual disk|Vdisk}} {{Infobox record label <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Music --> | name = V-Disc | image = V-disc 37A Glenn Miller.jpg | caption = V-Disc 39A, "[[Moonlight Serenade]]", by Glenn Miller and His Orchestra, November 1943 | founded = {{start date|1943}} | founder = U.S. government | defunct = {{end date|1949}} | genre = [[Jazz]], swing, [[pop music|pop]] | country = U.S. | location = <!-- headquarters city and state --> }} '''V-Disc''' ([[V sign#Second World War: V for Victory campaign|"V" for Victory]]) was a record label that was formed in 1943 to provide records for U.S. military personnel. Captain [[George Robert Vincent|Robert Vincent]] supervised the label from the [[Special Services (entertainment)|Special Services]] division.<ref name="New Grove">{{cite book|last1=Rye|first1=Howard|editor1-last=Kernfeld|editor1-first=Barry|title=The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz|date=2002|publisher=Grove's Dictionaries Inc.|location=New York|isbn=1-56159-284-6|page=834|volume=3|edition=2nd}}</ref> Many popular singers, big bands, and orchestras recorded V-discs.
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