Re-enacted broadcast of the 'Zero Hour' by 'Orphan Ann' from Radio Tokyo. Radio announcer Iva Toguri D'Aquino (Iva Ikuko Toguri before marriage) speaking in English tells about her life since the day she left Los Angeles where she was born and came to Japan to visit a sick aunt. She talks about how she came to work for the Japanese government. Iva Ikuko Toguri would later be wrongly convicted as the voice behind 'Tokyo Rose' a legendary radio personality that was never found.
Re-enacted broadcast of the 'Zero Hour' by 'Orphan Ann' from Radio Tokyo. Radio announcer, possibly Felipe d' Aquino, reads from a sheet of paper. He reads Japanese propaganda suggesting that the capture of Okinawa was a worthless sacrifice of American lives.
Iva Ikuko Toguri re-enacts a broadcast of the 'Zero Hour' by Radio Tokyo. Radio announcer Iva Toguri D'Aquino (Iva Ikuko Toguri before marriage) introduces herself as the 'little sunbeam who's throat you'd like to cut' She then introduces a song called 'I don't Want to Work' She would later be wrongly accused of being the voice of the legendary Tokyo Rose.
Radio Tokyo Station announcer Iva Toguri D'Aquino (wrongly accused of being Tokyo Rose) speaks in English about her life since the day she left Los Angeles where she was born and came to Japan to visit a sick aunt. This is during a re-enacted broadcast of the 'Zero Hour' in which she played the character 'Orphan Ann' from Radio Tokyo. She talks about how she came to work for the Japanese government.
Iva Ikuko Toguri (D' Aquino after marriage) re-enacts segments of a broadcast of the 'Zero Hour' as her character 'Orphan Ann' from Radio Tokyo. Iva Toguri D'Aquino reads the script, openly declaring that she will be assaulting the 'morale' of her listeners. She then introduces some music she describes as 'Jive'...a song called, 'I Don't Want to Work.' Japanese man plays a phonograph vinyl record in the background. Iva Toguri D'Aquino also talks about her life in America and Japan. She would later wrongly be accused of being 'Tokyo Rose'
General George S Patton gives a brief speech in Boston, Massachusetts. He speaks of The Third Army heroes and talks about the excellent job the men of the Medical Corps did during World War II. Military officials seated with their wives in the background.
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