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:I agree there could be an ancillary article on the overall effect of the broadcasts (that would take some research), but it could also probably fall under a larger "propaganda" article. We have a short article on Lord Haw-haw, but nothing on Axis Sally, Hanoi Hannah, etc. Hopefully somebody with a better knowledge of European or American history can help out there. Even with the origins of the name, there appears to very little. The first written mention is in YANK magazine, so it had become common slang by then.
:I agree there could be an ancillary article on the overall effect of the broadcasts (that would take some research), but it could also probably fall under a larger "propaganda" article. We have a short article on Lord Haw-haw, but nothing on Axis Sally, Hanoi Hannah, etc. Hopefully somebody with a better knowledge of European or American history can help out there. Even with the origins of the name, there appears to very little. The first written mention is in YANK magazine, so it had become common slang by then.
:As for time, that is lacking at the moment, as I shall be away on holiday from Friday, but maybe it is something to consider during the new year. Personally though, (but that is editor bias speaking) I am loathe to see the Tokyo Rose article being broken up - for better or worse, they are technically "each other". --[[User:JessicaT|KotomiT]]<sup>[[User talk:JessicaT|''ohayougozaimasu'']]</sup> 08:33, 17 December 2008 (EST)
:As for time, that is lacking at the moment, as I shall be away on holiday from Friday, but maybe it is something to consider during the new year. Personally though, (but that is editor bias speaking) I am loathe to see the Tokyo Rose article being broken up - for better or worse, they are technically "each other". --[[User:JessicaT|KotomiT]]<sup>[[User talk:JessicaT|''ohayougozaimasu'']]</sup> 08:33, 17 December 2008 (EST)
=="demoralizing US forces"==
Fundamentally, the charges brought against Tokyo Rose by the US government were racially motivated. The charge, "she demoralized US troops" refers to a recurrent theme she returned to - the US military was [[segregate]]d, and white troops did all the fighting from 1942-45. The points of Rose's broadcasts interspersed with American music was to say, while US troops were enduring hardship and death, their girlfriends back home where dating black men. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|''Deep Six the Deep State!'']]</sup> 19:21, 2 June 2018 (EDT)