1945: War-end twist for Tokyo Rose
From AFJ’s archives: August 11, 1945
Tokyo Rose Cited
Tokyo Rose, Radio Tokyo’s flaxen voiced air commentator whose propaganda has been beamed and listened to with amusement by American forces in the …
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1945: Treating PTSD during WWII
From the archives: August 11, 1945
Battle Fatigue Cure
A special receiving company is rehabilitating more than 200 soldiers a month, all of them hospital cases and most of them suffering from …
Read more ›1945: ‘A hard subsistence peace’ for Germany
From the archives: August 4, 1945
Service News and Gossip
The Potsdam conference decided, as its communique discloses, that Germany is to have a hard subsistence peace. The Reich will be reduced …
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From the archives: August 4, 1945
Combat Division Nicknames
A list of popular nicknames of combat divisions of the U.S. Army was compiled by Army Ground Forces headquarters in Washington. The list …
Read more ›1945: B-29s mine Japanese waters
From the archives: August 4, 1945
Japanese Ships Hit Minefields
Japanese shipping is now beginning to feel the intensity of minefield operations planted through the ingenuity and cooperation of the United States …
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