OLD TIME RADIO - 1 CD - 19 mp3
Tokyo
Rose (alternate spelling Tokio Rose) was a generic name
given by Allied forces in the South Pacific during World War
II to any of approximately a dozen English-speaking female
broadcasters of Japanese propaganda. The intent of these
broadcasts was to disrupt the morale of Allied forces
listening to the broadcast.The name "Tokyo Rose" is most
strongly associated with Iva Toguri D'Aquino. D'Aquino
broadcast as "Orphan Ann" during the 15-20 minute D.J.
segment of the 75-minute program The Zero Hour on Radio
Tokyo (NHK). The program consisted of propaganda-tinged
skits and slanted news reports as well as popular American
music.
Toguri was detained for a year by the U.S. military before
being released for lack of evidence. Department of Justice
officials agreed that her broadcasts were "innocuous". But
when Toguri tried to return to the US, a popular uproar
ensued, prompting the Federal Bureau of Investigation to
renew its investigation of Toguri's wartime activities. Her
1949 trial resulted in a conviction on one of eight counts
of treason. In 1974, investigative journalists found that
key witnesses claimed they were forced to lie during
testimony. Toguri was pardoned by U.S. President Gerald Ford
in 1977. American servicemen in the Pacific often listened
to the propaganda broadcasts to get a sense, by reading
between the lines, of the effect of their military actions.
Farther from the action, stories circulated that Tokyo Rose
could be unnervingly accurate, naming units and even
individual servicemen; though such stories have never been
substantiated by documents such as scripts and recorded
broadcasts, they have been reflected in popular books and
films such as Flags of Our Fathers. Similar rumors surround
the propaganda broadcasts of Lord Haw-Haw and Axis Sally.
Toguri's advocates have long argued that other announcers
better suited the legend. These include the American Ruth
Hayakawa (who substituted for Iva on weekends), Canadian
June Suyama ("The Nightingale of Nanking"), who also
broadcast on Radio Tokyo, and Myrtle Lipton ("Little
Margie") who broadcast from Japanese-controlled Radio
Manila. However, during the war, journalists and officials
with the US Foreign Broadcast Information Service identified
Toguri's "Orphan Ann" as the woman "most servicemen seem to
refer to when they speak of Tokyo Rose" but characterized
the "legends" of clairvoyance that "piled up about 'Tokyo
Rose'" as "apocryphal".
Walter Kaner aired on US Army Radio during and after World
War II as "Tokyo Mose", answering Tokyo Rose’s broadcasts.
In Japan, his "Moshi, Moshi Ano-ne" theme song, sung to the
tune of "London Bridge is Falling Down", was so popular with
Japanese children and GIs alike that Stars and Stripes, the
Army newspaper, called it "the Japanese occupation theme
song." Elsa Maxwell's column and radio show in 1946 referred
to Kaner as "the breath of home to unknown thousands of our
young men when they were lonely."
SHOWS LIST
Tokyo Rose - Broadcast
Tokyo Rose
Tokyo Rose - Describes Her Show Tokyo Rose
Tokyo Rose - Gerry's Front Calling British Pow Messages
Tokyo Rose
Tokyo Rose - Gerry's Front Calling Canada & Uk Pow Tokyo
Rose
Tokyo Rose - Gerry's Front Calling Us Pow Messages Tokyo
Rose
Tokyo Rose - Marine Love Note To Tokyo Rose Tokyo Rose
Tokyo Rose - Misc Ep1 Tokyo Rose
Tokyo Rose - Misc Ep2 Tokyo Rose
Tokyo Rose - Mock Sign Off For Us Newsreels Tokyo Rose
Tokyo Rose - Mock Sign On For Us Newsreels Tokyo Rose
Tokyo Rose - News Documentary Tokyo Rose
Tokyo Rose - NHK Orphan Anne Sign On Tokyo Rose
Tokyo Rose - NHK Zero Hour Orphan Anne (Iva Toguri) 1 Tokyo
Rose
Tokyo Rose - NHK Zero Hour Orphan Anne (Iva Toguri) 2 Tokyo
Rose
Tokyo Rose - NHK Zero Hour Orphan Anne (Iva Toguri) 3 Tokyo
Rose
Tokyo Rose - NHK Zero Hour Orphan Anne (Iva Toguri) 4 Tokyo
Rose
Tokyo Rose - NHK Zero Hour Orphan Anne (Iva Toguri) 5 Tokyo
Rose
Tokyo Rose - NHK Zero Hour Orphan Anne (Iva Toguri) 6 Tokyo
Rose
Tokyo Rose - NHk Zero Hour Orphan Anne (Iva Toguri) 7 Tokyo
Rose
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