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Home > Mansfield Library > Archives and Special Collections > Oral Histories > Veterans Remember "Tokyo Rose" Oral History Project

Veterans Remember "Tokyo Rose" Oral History Project

 

This collection includes seventeen 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 17 interviews.

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  • Barry Zorthian Interview, November 25, 1987 by Barry Zorthian

    Barry Zorthian Interview, November 25, 1987

    Barry Zorthian

    Barry Zorthian discusses the effectiveness of Tokyo Rose’s World War Two propaganda, which he listened to while serving in the U.S. Marines in the Pacific Theater. He discusses strategies he used as a propaganda specialist during the Vietnam War, such as emphasizing homesickness or loneliness. ... Read More

  • Bill Ohrmann Interview, October 28, 1987 by Bill Ohrmann

    Bill Ohrmann Interview, October 28, 1987

    Bill Ohrmann

    Bill Ohrmann recalls serving as a U.S. Army Air Corps member in the Pacific Theater during World War Two. He discusses Tokyo Rose’s broadcasts, which he listened to while on guard duty in New Guinea, and recalls that the troops did not take the propaganda ... Read More

  • Bob Johnson Interview, October 29, 1987 by Bob Johnson

    Bob Johnson Interview, October 29, 1987

    Bob Johnson

    Bob Johnson recalls his World War Two service in the Sixth Defense Battalion of the United States Marines Corps on Sand Island, of the Midway Islands, in 1943 and 1944. Johnson discusses listening to Tokyo Rose for entertainment, and remembers the servicemen guessing that Tokyo ... Read More

  • Clifford Uyeda Interview, February 19, 1988 by Clifford Uyeda

    Clifford Uyeda Interview, February 19, 1988

    Clifford Uyeda

    Doctor Clifford Uyeda discusses his work, beginning in the 1950s, to obtain a presidential pardon for Iva Toguri, indicted by the U.S. government as “Tokyo Rose.” He recounts Toguri’s plight during World War Two, as an American citizen stuck in Japan, and her struggle to ... Read More

  • Clover Koopman Radio Broadcast, March 1988 by Clover Koopman

    Clover Koopman Radio Broadcast, March 1988

    Clover Koopman

    Clover Koopman introduces her oral history project, War of Words and Music: Veterans Remember “Tokyo Rose”, and provides background on “Tokyo Rose” and Iva Toguri—the voice behind Tokyo Rose. Using clips from Tokyo Rose broadcasts, interviews with World War Two veterans and historians, Koopman provides ... Read More

  • Gareth Moon Interview, October 25, 1987 by Gareth Moon

    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 Japanese air attack while posted at Henderson Field in Guadalcanal, either in 1943 or 1945. ... Read More

  • Georgana Egeland Interview, October 27, 1987 by Georgana Egeland

    Georgana Egeland Interview, October 27, 1987

    Georgana Egeland

    Georgana Egeland discusses her husband, Roy Egeland’s experience listening to Tokyo Rose while serving in the United States Navy during in the Pacific Theater during World War Two. She recalls her husband remembering enjoying the music in Tokyo Rose’s broadcasts, and while some of the ... Read More

  • Ken McConnell Interview, October 2, 1987 by Ken McConnell

    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 the broadcasts of Tokyo Rose including: her selection of popular music from the United States; ... Read More

  • Kenneth R. M. Short Interview, December 3, 1987 by Kenneth R. M. Short

    Kenneth R. M. Short Interview, December 3, 1987

    Kenneth R. M. Short

    Doctor Kenneth R. M. Short discusses U.S. radio propaganda during World War Two. He discusses the Office of War Information, which existed from 1942 to 1943 in the United States, which released propaganda aimed at U.S. citizens’ perception of World War Two and U.S. allies. ... Read More

  • Lawrence H. "Larry" Suid Interview, February 10, 1988 by Lawrence H. Suid

    Lawrence H. "Larry" Suid Interview, February 10, 1988

    Lawrence H. Suid

    Lawrence “Larry” Suid discusses radio and television propaganda used by the United States during World War Two. He discusses the Armed Forces Radio’s monopoly on prime airtime, and programming production. Suid discusses similarities and differences between U.S. propaganda during World War Two and the Vietnam ... Read More

  • Lester B. Tucker Interview, October 28, 1987 by Lester B. Tucker

    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 September 1943, and discusses listening to Tokyo Rose. Tucker recalls how quickly Tokyo Rose would ... Read More

  • Mariano Villarin Interview, February 18, 1988 by Mariano Villarin

    Mariano Villarin Interview, February 18, 1988

    Mariano Villarin

    Mariano Villarin, a prisoner of war in Japan during World War Two, discusses his interactions with Iva Toguri, convicted by the U.S. government as “Tokyo Rose.” He recalls the U.S. government’s subpoena of his wartime diary, to be used to convict Toguri, in which he ... Read More

  • Max Kraus Interview, 1987 by Max Kraus

    Max Kraus Interview, 1987

    Max Kraus

    Max Kraus discusses performing combat propaganda while in the United States Army in Europe during World War Two. He recounts an instance where, broadcasting propaganda to German forces across the front line, he was credited with the surrender of 2,500 German troops at Lorient, France. ... Read More

  • Paul Snyder Interview, October 26, 1987 by Paul Snyder

    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 made some soldiers, including him, homesick. Snyder recalls Tokyo Rose’s propaganda as usually ineffective, due ... Read More

  • Richard A. "Dick" Grant Interview, October 28, 1987 by Richard A. Grant

    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, angering the troops. Grant recalls enjoying listening to Tokyo Rose because of the modern American ... Read More

  • Robert Anderson Interview, October 26, 1987 by Robert Anderson

    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 for the men. Anderson remembers Tokyo Rose’s warnings that the atabrine tablets the crew took ... Read More

  • Will Clover Interview, October 25, 1987 by Will Clover

    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 miles away from Guadalcanal, and the ensuing three days he spent on a raft while ... Read More

 
 
 

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