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Good Evening Yankees. This Is Your Japanese Sister and the Voice of Truth That Reaches out to You from the Peacefulness of J Military Terms, Abbreviations, Acronyms 1 Thorns of a Rose 1, 2, 4 Did You Know: Stories from Air America 2, 3 Meet the Military: Auschwitz Volunteer 2 The Ride of Your Life (part 2) 3 code for “Lima Sites” which WWII Recruitment Poster 3 were covert sites of the Laotian Civil War in which the US military This Day in Military History 4 conducted clandestine operations abbreviation used for the Rescue Combat Air Patrol, a fight- er force used to protect personnel On the evening of February 18, 1945, empty shelves as public clamors for more sailors and marines of Joint Expedi- on the ground and to conduct air merchandise; workers claim nightclub tionary Force (Task Force 51) are search and rescue operations curfew limits amusement spending. Does tuned in to the only radio program that sound like a people who want war? abbreviation for a series of that they are able to pick up easily so Who are supporting you as you carry on far out at sea. The music is American Soviet anti-aircraft guns used by your sacrificial attempts to carry on this and the most popular of that era. As useless war? Think it over Yankee broth- over 50 countries worldwide Connee Boswell finishes the last strains of “I Can’t Give You Anything ers - they do not want war and they are doing their best to let you know that they : This month’s terms came But Love,” another familiar voice are not behind you in this war. This is from the “Did You Know” article. comes over the airwaves with a mes- sage for the American Troops. the Voice of Truth. I will be with you Iva Toguri, mugshot, 1946 again tomorrow – those of you who are “Good Evening Yankees. This is your left to listen.” Japanese sister and the Voice of Truth that reaches out to you from the peacefulness of Japan. Today, as always At the time of this broadcast, the Japanese were with love, but also with sorrow. Sorrow because of what reeling from defeat after defeat. The Japanese Navy your superiors are making you do. Tomorrow morning was no longer a significant threat to the now power- they are making you to attempt the impossible; because ful United States Navy. The “island hopping” cam- paign of the Allied forces was pushing the Japanese it is impossible for you to dislodge our forces on Iwo Jima. forces back to Japan where the country was becom- I am filled with sadness because of the thousands of ing more and more isolated on an island surrounded Japanese soldiers who are waiting for you, safe in caves by its enemies. The American industrial complex and pillboxes where your bombs and shells cannot touch was in full gear turning out weapons and war ma- them. They are reluctantly waiting to slaughter you. chines at a lighting fast rate. In six months, this long They don’t want to slaughter you because they know war would finally be over. what you are about to do is not of your own choice. Tokyo Rose was a generic name given any of the They know, as I know, and you know, that you are mak- approximately dozen English-speaking females who ing the futile sacrifice for a people who sleep snug and served as DJs and broadcasted Japanese propagan- secure eleven thousand miles away - who have never da during World War II. The purpose of the broad- seen a grenade burst in an American’s stomach; and an casts was to disrupt the morale of American and American arm blown from an American shoulder - a other Allied forces fighting in the Pacific Theater. people who are not interested in the headlines you are Some of the females spoke English with a Japanese trying to make. They only want to make their own head- accent, while one, Iva Toguri, spoke perfect English, lines. Listen, Yankee brothers, to these headlines: five even to the point of knowing American jargon and thousand blood donors desert blood bank as Eisenhower common phrases. Beginning in 1943, Toguri was sweeps into the Rhineland; strike continues in critical war the primary voice associated with Tokyo Rose. industry; three year buying spree leaves retailers with CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Editor’s Note: For the first time in no area with which he helped col- the history of the Patriot News, we lect weapons and disarm retreating are featuring someone who was in German troops in what became the the military service of a foreign prelude to the Vilna offensive. Dur- country. However, Witold Pilecki’s ing the Polish-Soviet War of 1919- The fifteenth of July 1965 was a story is so compelling that I need to 1920, Pilecki commanded a ZHP share it with this article adapted Scout section that was overrun by long time ago, but some things from the Jewish Virtual Library. the Bolsheviks. He later joined the Pilecki used a courier system that you never forget. regular Polish Army and fought in the Polish Resistance operated Witold Pilecki was a soldier of the I had been flying an H-34 for Air the Polish retreat from Kiev. On throughout occupied Europe to Second Polish Republic, the found- August 5, 1920, Pilec- channel the reports to the Allies. America, Inc., supplying outposts er of the Secret Polish in the Lima Site 36 area located ki joined the 211th Documents released from the Army Polish re- Uhlan Regiment and Polish Archives that provided de- about 20 miles north of the sistance group, and a fought in the Battle of tails of these reports again raised Plains des Jars in central Laos. member of the Home Warsaw and at Rudni- questions as to why the Allies, par- This outpost surrounded LS-36, a Army. He is now rec- ki Forest and took ticularly Winston Churchill, never heavily fortified key friendly posi- ognized as the only part in the liberation did anything to put an end to the known person to vol- tion with a 3,500 ft. airfield. of Wilno. atrocities being committed that unteer to be impris- they learned of so early in the war. Very late in the afternoon of 14 oned at the Auschwitz During World War II, July, I overheard a call from Res- concentration camp Pilecki smuggled him- Cap that an aircraft was down in during World War II. self into Auschwitz Sam Neua province near the under the false name Pilecki was born on Tomasz Serafinski in North Vietnamese border. I was May 13, 1901 in Kare- 1940 and began re- working alone just to the west lia, Russia where his cruiting members for and could reach the area in 15 family had been forcibly resettled an underground resistance group minutes. Had there been anoth- by Tsarist Russian authorities after that he organized into a coherent the suppression of Poland's January movement. He began sending infor- er of our helicopters nearby, I Uprising of 1863-1864. In 1910, would have attempted a pickup. mation about what was going on Pilecki moved with his family to inside the camp and confirming All rescue operations, however, Wilno (now Vilnius, Lithuania) that the Nazis were seeking the required two helicopters and solo where he joined the secret ZHP extermination of the Jews to Britain attempts were not permitted. Scouts organization. In 1918, dur- and the United States as early as ing World War I, Pilecki joined 1941. The next morning, I was told that Polish self-defense units in the Wil- CONTINUED NEXT MONTH two other Air America helos would handle the pick-up and to continue on my re-supply work for the LS-36 outposts. About an With her sultry voice and playful propaganda designed to play on the purpose of disseminating propagan- hour later, I was called and told tongue-in-cheek delivery, her care- worst fears of the listeners. The da. She refused these efforts until that I was now part of the rescue fully crafted comments were aimed following is from “Orphan Annie finally coerced in 1943, and she effort and to return to LS-36 for at attacking and disrupting the mo- (aka Tokyo Rose):” “Hello, bone- served as a DJ until the end of the full fuel. An earlier attempt at a rale of Allied servicemen, particular- heads. This is your favorite enemy, war. After the surrender of Japan, pickup had failed when a helo ly the Americans. She often called Ann. How are all you orphans of the Toguri was arrested and convicted had a hydraulic servo shot out herself “Orphan Annie” to identify Pacific? Are you enjoying yourselves of treason in 1949. The war was herself with those “poor men who while your wives and sweethearts are still fresh in the public memory and while it foolishly tried to cross have been abandoned by their coun- Toguri was considered by many to the Sam Neua highway that was try.” Her reports were many times running around with the 4F’s be the voice of Japan. She was con- crawling with 20mm, 37mm and unnervingly accurate by even nam- (disqualified from military service for victed and served six years of a ten- ZPU 14.5mm guns (ZPU-4 pic- ing ships, specific military units, and health reasons) in the States? How year sentence. Following prison, tured below). The well-protected individual servicemen. do you feel now when all your ships she continued to lobby for her inno- have been sunk by the Japanese Na- cence claiming that she had no highway curved south through The script of Tokyo Rose followed vy? How will you get home? Here’s choice but to participate or be seen Sam Neua to the enemy-help the same type of propaganda venue another record to remind you of as a spy and killed.
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