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Saturday, August 21, 2004
*Volunteers count and measure fish at Gray's Reef
*Tybee's beaches are off-limits, but there are other nearby beaches that welcome dogs
-Savannah Morning News, 8-21-04
*Kingfish Classic: Georgia's largest saltwater fishing tournament began under calm skies on tranquil seas Friday morning
-Brunswick News, 8-20-04
http://dogfriendly.com/
http://www.idyll-by-the-sea.com/
Battle of the Air Waves. WW2 Axis Radio Propaganda.
Introduction.
Three people were particularly involved, two women and one man, these were: Mildred Gillars, known as Axis Sally, Iva Toguri, aka Tokyo Rose, and William Joyce, who broadcast German propaganda over the radio, and was called Lord Haw Haw.
Mildred Gillars.
This woman was American who had lived in France, and by 1934 moved to Germany, becoming in due course, the Director of Radio Berlin. Mildred became known as Axis Sally, and broadcast propaganda for the German publicity machine from their radio stations. During the furious Battle of the Bulge, she was heard exhorting the US troops to give up fighting, as 50,000 of them had been captured by the German Army, needless to say, this ploy did not work. Her propaganda efforts failed, and after the war she was tried in American Courts for treason, and found guilty.
Iva Ikuko Togui.
The second woman in this category was Iva Togui, whose sultry voice was heard across the Pacific when she broadcast for the Japanese, and played music for US troops, who dubbed her Tokyo Rose. Iva had been born in the United States on the 4th. of July 1916 from Japanese parents in Los Angeles. At age 25, she set off for Japan on the 5th. of July in 1941, her Aunt there had become ill, and she went to represent her family.
As she left at short notice, there was insufficient time for the State Department to issue her with a Passport, in lieu, she carried a Certificate of Identification, which supposedly would be sufficient to allow her to return to the US in due course. She tried to return in November 1941, but was refused, as US authorities stated there was no evidence that Iva was in fact a US citizen.
When war was declared between the US and Japan on the 7th. of December 1941 after the infamous Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, she was stranded in Japan. She tried to augment her income with some work in radio
doing typing, and eventually did some radio broadcasting. Her work could be classed as giving out Japanese propaganda, and also included playing popular music beamed at United States troops fighting in the Pacific theatre. She was to become known as Tokyo Rose.
Post war, Iva was arrested, tried in US courts for treason, and given a 10 year prison sentence, which she served for six years and two months at the Federal Reformatory for Women in Aderson West Virginia. At this same prison serving her sentence also for treason was Mildred Gillars. Eventually Iva was pardoned by President Ford, there is evidence that she tried to assist Allied Prisoners of War in Japan.
William Joyce.
The third and final one of our WW2 radio propagandists was American born William Joyce, who was sympathetic to the Nazi cause. He held a British passport, and fled to Germany when war broke out in 1939. There he broadcast German propaganda on radio, taking the name of Lord Haw Haw, his radio sessions were listened to in England but really did not make any impact.
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