This collection includes seven interviews detailing United States Army, Navy, and Marines veterans’ recollections of listening to the “Tokyo Rose” Japanese radio broadcast while serving in the Pacific Theater during World War Two. The interviews were conducted in 1987 by Clover Koopman as part of her master’s thesis War of Words and Music: Veterans Remember ‘Tokyo Rose’. The interviewees discuss understanding Tokyo Rose’s broadcasts to be propaganda, designed to demoralize them. They recall varying degrees of fear or anger while listening to her prisoner of war broadcasts and predictions of U.S. strikes. The original interviews are held as Oral History collection 238 at Archives and Special Collections, Mansfield Library, University of Montana-Missoula.
This collection includes 7 interviews.
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Gareth Moon Interview, October 25, 1987
Gareth Moon
Gareth Moon discusses his experiences with Tokyo Rose while serving in the 9th regiment, 2nd battalion, 3rd division of the U.S. Marine Corps during World War Two He specifically discusses... Read More
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Ken McConnell Interview, October 2, 1987
Ken McConnell
Ken McConnell recalls his World War Two service in the Signal Corps of the U.S. Army, from August 1942 to November 1945, in the Pacific theater. He remembers listening to... Read More
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Lester B. Tucker Interview, October 28, 1987
Lester B. Tucker
Lester Tucker recalls his service in the U.S. Navy during World War Two chiefly from 1939 to 1943. He reflects on his time serving around Guadalcanal from August 1942 to... Read More
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Paul Snyder Interview, October 26, 1987
Paul Snyder
Paul Snyder recalls his World War Two service in the U.S. Navy, beginning in 1940, in the Pacific theater. He discusses the romantic music Tokyo Rose played, and how it... Read More
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Richard A. "Dick" Grant Interview, October 28, 1987
Richard A. Grant
Richard Grant recalls his military service in New Guinea in 1943, during World War Two. He discusses Tokyo Rose’s broadcasts, which would often give accurate predictions about American forces’ movements,... Read More
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Robert Anderson Interview, October 26, 1987
Robert Anderson
Robert Anderson recalls his military service in the U.S. Navy in the Pacific theater during World War Two. He recalls listening to Tokyo Rose, which the ship recorded and played... Read More
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Will Clover Interview, October 25, 1987
Will Clover
Will Clover discusses his time in radio communications for the U.S. Navy during World War Two. He recalls being aboard the USS Meredith in 1942, which was sunk about 90... Read More