The Legend of Tokyo Rose | Unreasonable Faith In fact, there doesn’t seem to have been any one person who went by the name “Tokyo Rose.” There were twenty-seven different female broadcasters at some point in the war, but none consistently used the handle of “Tokyo Rose.” For some reason, the name caught on with the media. The New York Times wrote that “Tokyo Rose” could be picked up in Alaska, which seems unlikely. The US Navy, tongue in check, offered Tokyo Rose a citation for entertaining the troops.?
The name wasn't used by Radio Tokyo, that was the name given to the female, English speaking announcers by the western allies. Sort of like "Lord Ha-Ha", he certainly didn't call himself that. The same is true for the name "Tokyo Rose", they each had their own "stage names", I think Iva Toguri's was "Orphan Ann". She picked that name first because when she first read the scripts given her, the part she was to be reading was labeled "ANN", for announcer. But she thought that was the name of the character she was supposed to be. When it was explained to her, she added the "Orphan" part herself. She had been abandoned in Japan by diplomatic screw-ups, and thought it was a cute play on words to take the stage name of "Orphan Ann", and it also had a "left-handed" reference to one of the most popular cartoon strips of the day. Little Orphan Annie. Sorry Ray, I should have carefully read the article before posting. The sad tale of Iva Toguri is one of my pet peeves and I just "went off on a tangent". Again, sorry 'bout that.
not a problem, clint... lord haw-haw update from wiki: The name "Lord Haw-Haw of Zeesen" was coined by the pseudonymous Daily Express radio critic Jonah Barrington in 1939,[12] but this referred initially to Wolf Mittler (or possibly Norman Baillie-Stewart). When Joyce became the best-known propaganda broadcaster, the nickname was transferred to him
"These stories are very hard to credit. One of the first rules of intelligence gathering is that you don’t reveal the knowledge you’ve gained. The idea that the Japanese intelligence service would hand information over to the propaganda service to be read out over the airwaves goes against everything we understand about how intelligence work was conducted." The Allies fed certain things to The Axis that were aired by "Axis Sally", who went by "Midge-at-the-Mic" if memory serves correct. In Ambrose's Band of Brothers, there is a mention of her "greeting" the 101st when they arrive in England. As I recall, The Allies were feeding the information to Axis double agents to give The Axis the impression that their agents had not been discovered. Also, a little more about Tokyo Rose:Tokyo Rose - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
