[DallasBiff]

I know there are not many World War II vets left, but it was a controversial pardon by President Ford, at the time.

It was not a presumptive pardon, as Biden did.

Discuss.

[dfwgator]

She certainly was better off than William Joyce (Lord Haw Haw)

[ComputerGuy]

I’d be OK with a pardon for Hanoi Hannah. She usually played better music than Cronauer.

[Tell It Right]

If Japan hadn’t made the mistake of bombing Pearl Harbor, China might today still be Japan’s “comfort woman”.

[hdbc]

Hanoi Jane should have been charged with treason.

[PGR88]

The English author PG Wodehouse faced a somewhat similar situation, where he did some radio broadcasts from Berlin in 1941. It wasn’t outright pro-Nazi propaganda per se, as it was done in his humorous style, but his broadcasts were definitely arranged by Goebbels for an intended effect, particularly on American audiences, where Wodehouse was popular.

His biographer talked about Wodehouse’s thinking at the time

https://southwestreview.com/a-grave-moral-mistake-the-tragedy-of-p-g-wodehouses-berlin-broadcasts/

[utax]

Dad was a guard at the prison where she was held for a year.

[Inyo-Mono]

I remember my Dad telling me how Tokyo Rose announced his Army Air Corps squadron of B-24s arrival in the Philippines and warning them that they wouldn’t last long.

[Fiji Hill]

There was no Tokyo Rose. The Japanese used about 20 female broadcasters, most of whom were Japanese, but none of them used that name.

[Fiji Hill]

You can actually hear a broadcast of The Zero Hour, a variety show on Radio Tokyo featuring Iva Toguri broadcasting as Orphan Ann, from August, 1944, on Youtube. The show begins with the news--"the fighting news for the fighting men"--and then Ann plays records such as My Resistance Is Low by Orrin Tucker & His Orchestra (1940). All of the songs are "Oldies" that came out before Pearl Harbor was bombed.