Tokyo Rose broadcasts?

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by mako88sb

I suppose it's possible/likely that some subterfuge was involved here. Having someone seemingly sympathetic to the Japanese passing on relatively harmless info so that they can eventually pass on some juicy but misleading plans to help confuse the enemy.

Now that's something I've never considered. The more I think about it the more it makes sense. On the other hand you would think that after all this time such a good plan would have seen the light of day. So I still have the question of where the information came from, no matter whether it was spy or counter-spy.

[mako88sb]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Now that's something I've never considered. The more I think about it the more it makes sense. On the other hand you would think that after all this time such a good plan would have seen the light of day. So I still have the question of where the information came from, no matter whether it was spy or counter-spy.

My guess is that whatever miss-direction may have actually happened or been planned probably had to do with invasion plans for Japan. Seeing as it never happened, the US never felt the need to make much of it.

[Sailor Steve]

I don' care! I still want's to know!

[vienna]

I don' care! I still want's to know!

Such a fierce glower!...

Maybe this is a clue...

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/...ship-movements

[Torplexed]

Originally Posted by vienna

Such a fierce glower!...

Maybe this is a clue...

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/...ship-movements

An excellent article vienna. I think it's safe to say the story of "Tokyo Rose" was one that grew in the telling, even though neither Iva nor anyone else ever broadcast for the Japanese under that name. She had in fact never even sat in front of a radio microphone until the fall of 1943, years after the myth of a single "Tokyo Rose" arose from the imaginations of numerous Allied soldiers in the Pacific who tried to put a face on the many female voices coming from numerous Japanese controlled radio stations.

Of her own broadcasts, during which she actually used the name "Orphan Ann", all that remains are a smattering of scripts, and a precious few recordings that can barely be accounted for on two hands.

[Sailor Steve]

Yes it is an excellent article, and thanks Vienna for the link. Unfortunately I still have the question from the original post, that of Mr. Robertson's memory of "Rose" mentioning all the pilots' names the same day they arrived at Guam. Common knowledge? Leaked information? Faulty memory?

All are possibilities, or none. I'd love to know, and almost certainly never will.

[vienna]

Came across this...

The "Orphan Ann" Homepage:

http://www.dyarstraights.com/orphan_ann/orphanan.html


Some interesting reading...


EDIT:

Also found this...