Twelve miles south of Sen. JD Vance’s (R-Ohio) birthplace of Middletown, Ohio, is a place where billions of taxpayer dollars sailed virtually into the clear blue sky for more than 50 years. That place is the Voice of America’s Bethany Relay Station, an array of short-wave antennas that beamed radio signals to overseas listeners, first to Nazi Germany and then to captive nations behind the Iron Curtain. Voice of America (VOA) first aired just 79 days after the United States reluctantly entered World War II, a struggle that exacted an untold price in blood and treasure. In effect, Nazi Germany...