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	Mildred Elizabeth Sisk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		With her sultry voice, Gillars was a well-known propagandist to Allied troops, who gave her the nickname "Axis Sally." Her most infamous broadcast was made on May 11, 1944, prior to the D-Day invasion of Normandy, France.
		"Axis Sally" was a female radio personality during World War II.
		Born Mildred Elizabeth Sisk in Portland, Maine on November 29, 1900, she took the name Mildred Gillars as a small child after her mother remarried and moved to New York City where young Mildred dreamed of becoming an actress, but she met with little success.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Axis_Sally (436 words)

	Sally Sheinman - Axis artist page
		Sally Sheinman admits to being a workaholic, becoming committed to long-term projects, which absorb her in the studio for months.
		Sally Sheinman is an American who grew up on a dairy farm close to the Canadian border and also worked on Wall Street.
		Sally has lived in Britain for the last 19 years; and is currently working in Northampton.
	www.axisartists.org.uk /seCVFU.aspx?ARTISTID=4317 (632 words)

	Alderson Federal Prison Camp - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Axis Sally (aka Mildred Gillars) - imprisoned 1949-1961
		Scene from Martha Behind Bars, shot in Humber College Lakeshore's "H Building Cafeteria", simulating that of FPC Alderson.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Camp_Cupcake (239 words)

	World War II Propagandist / The Bride of Lord Haw-Haw!
		Despite all her other antics, "Axis Sally" was convicted on the basis of just one broadcast, a radio drama called "Vision of Invasion" that - on the eve of D-Day- sought to scare GI's out of invading occupied Europe.
		One of the most notorious to be convicted was Mildred Gillars, or "Axis Sally" as she was known to the GI's who heard her Radio Berlin broadcasts.
		Telling the POWs she visited that she was a Red Cross representative, she enticed them to send happy messages to suggest that living under the Nazis, even in POW camps,was a good thing.
	www.wfmu.org /LCD/GreatDJ/AxisSal.html (362 words)

	AXIS SALLY, The Most Listened-to Woman of World War II.
		Axis Sally is neither a straight biography nor a forensic narrative.
		AXIS SALLY, The Most Listened-to Woman of World War II.
		It is an impressionistic portrait less about the sins of Mildred Gillars than her reason for committing them.
	www.axissally.net (1012 words)

	Mildred Elizabeth Sisk -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		"Axis Sally" was a female (A communication system based on broadcasting electromagnetic waves) radio personality during World War II.
		Born Mildred Elizabeth Sisk in (Click link for more info and facts about Portland, Maine) Portland, Maine on November 29, 1900 she took the name Mildred Gillars as a small child after her mother remarried.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/mi/mildred_elizabeth_sisk.htm (440 words)

	Axis Forces - Radio channel
		In the mean time, have a listen to our very own Axis Sally and her attempts to unsettle the enemy.
		Mildred Gillars alias Axis Sally was another American who found work with the German propaganda radio stations.
		Although the people described here were helping the enemy many Allied service personel as well as civilians, did listen to their shows, if for nothing more than amusement or the music which punctuated the propaganda which flowed at every oppertunity.
	www.geocities.com /axisforcesradio/propaganda.html (423 words)

	The FReeper Foxhole Profiles Axis Sally - August 21st, 2004
		Axis Sally was born in 1900 in Portland, Maine as Mildred Elizabeth Sisk.
		Mildred Gillars, alias Axis Sally, was then transported to the Federal Women's Reformatory in Alderson, W.Va. When she became eligible for parole in 1959, she waived the right, apparently preferring prison to ridicule as a traitor on the outside.
		Perhaps Sally's most famous broadcast, and the one that would eventually get her convicted of treason, was a play titled Vision of Invasion that went out over the airwaves on May 11, 1944.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-vetscor/1196108/posts (6883 words)

	Radio Leaflets During Wartime
		The use of radio as a medium of propaganda in wartime was made famous during WWII by Tokyo Rose and Axis Sally.
		We wonder if this Sally is the famous "Axis Sally," or just another in the group of English-speaking women used by the Germans to broadcast propaganda.
		Sally says YOU CAN LIVE IN PEACE and COMFORT at one of the camps operated under the auspices of the Red Cross.
	www.psywarrior.com /RadioLeaflet.html (7883 words)

	WWIIReenacting.co.uk :: View topic - Hello from axis sally
		Axis Sally was also known by her real name of Mildred Gillars.
		Sorry Sally, if you fancy trying this at a show I know of a great one thats taking place in Cosby in Leicestershire in September (about 50 miles away from Oxs.
		I hope you do apologize for me "intruding" this forum the way I did...but had too many years with the RAF being "the wife of", that an alias seemed to be a good way of starting here.
	wwiireenacting.co.uk /forum/archive/o_t__t_7811__hello-from-axis-sally.html (720 words)

	Where can you find primary source material on Axis Sally-Mildred Gillars?
		I never had the opportunity to listen to Axis Sally's European broadcasts -- but I listened a lot to Tokyo Rose in the Pacific Ocean area.
		There's a lot of information about Axis Sally on the web.
		Sally was born Milderd Sisk in Portland, Maine.
	www.faqfarm.com /History/WWII/123406 (522 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Axis Sally: The Most Listened-to Woman Of World War Ii
		She gives the name of "Axis Sally' a face and gives us some insight into the personality and forces that shaped Axis Sally's behavior.
		Axis Sally -A Must Read--, February 23, 2004
		Axis Sally: The Most Listened-to Woman Of World War Ii
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0972367578 (307 words)

	Today in history - Sept. 10 - Boston.com
		In 1948, American-born Mildred Gillars, accused of being Nazi wartime radio broadcaster Axis Sally, was indicted in Washington D.C. for treason.
		In 1945, Vidkun Quisling was sentenced to death in Norway for collaborating with the Nazis (he was executed by firing squad in October 1945).
	www.boston.com /news/history/articles/2005/09/09/today_in_history___sept_10 (449 words)

	New York Daily News - City Life - Big Town Songbook: Off Broadway
		Every day, Axis Sally spun Glenn Miller tunes and read the names of U.S. soldiers wounded and captured.
		As for their fate if they kept fighting, Sally broadcast a show in May 1944 called "Vision of Invasion," which graphically warned that if the Allies were foolish enough to invade Europe, they would be slaughtered on the beaches.
		The captured soldiers were now much better off, added Sally, because they were no longer in the cross hairs of the German Army, which was going to win the war and rule for a thousand years.
	www.nydailynews.com /city_life/story/343580p-293384c.html (988 words)

	Broadcasting History - Various Articles
		The woman known as "Axis Sally" was actually Mildred Gillars -- born in Portland, Maine in 1900.
		There was never an actual German broadcaster who used the "Axis Sally" name: this was a slang name given Gillars by GI listeners.
		Gillars was known in these programs as "Midge," and it was under that name that she did all of her propaganda programming.
	members.aol.com /jeff560/am10.html (7705 words)

	Mildred Gillars AKA Axis Sally
		As Axis Sally found out, it doesn't have to be any of those things.
		Though she referred to herself as "Midge at the Mike," American soldiers called her "Axis Sally." The program would alternate from music to racial speeches and would also include messages from American POW.
		One of her favorite tricks was to convince soldiers that she was from the Red Cross and wanted to record messages for the soldier's families.
	www.edhelper.com /ReadingComprehension_33_237.html (458 words)

	TCS: Tech Central Station - In the Grand Tradition of Axis Sally and Tokyo Rose
		In the Grand Tradition of Axis Sally and Tokyo Rose
		TCS: Tech Central Station - In the Grand Tradition of Axis Sally and Tokyo Rose
	www.techcentralstation.com /051705B.html (326 words)

	The Smoking Gun: Archive
		Mildred Elizabeth Sisk (aka Axis Sally) was 56-years-old when she began serving a federal prison sentence for treason in 1949.
		Working for Radio Berlin, Axis Sally--pictured here in a Bureau of Prisons mug shot--was infamous for her anti-Semitic and anti-Roosevelt propaganda broadcasts before and during World War II.
		Click here for TSG's extensive mug shot collection.
	www.thesmokinggun.com /mugshots/axissallymug1.html (56 words)

	325th Figther Group
		The "Checkertail Clan" got its name from "Axis Sally" which was the Axis Powers' version of Tokyo Rose.
		That night, Axis Sally described the group as the "Checkertail Butchers".
		It seems that on one mission, while in North Africa, the 325th FG shot down 20 Nazi planes earning the group their first Distinguished Unit Citation.
	www.geocities.com /pentagon/1979/325fg.html (594 words)

	National Review: Axis Sally - Germany and Japan seek UN Security Council permanent membership - Editorial
		Axis Sally - Germany and Japan seek UN Security Council permanent membership - Editorial
		National Review: Axis Sally - Germany and Japan seek UN Security Council permanent membership - Editorial
		BOTH Germany and Japan have now sallied forth with requests to become Permanent Members of the UN Security Council.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1282/is_n20_v44/ai_12925573 (441 words)

	Quest for Tokyo Rose
		Her trial, unlike that of European theatre of operations female radio broadcasters, Mildred Gillars, or Axis Sally (she called herself Sally in her broadcasts) was not clearcut.
		About the trial of Roma Sally this writer has no knowledge.
		On March 11, 1948, Miss Gillars was found guilty of treason against the United States.
	www.ussubvetsofworldwarii.org /Saga_10_99.html (2005 words)

	Axis
		1988 Axis Sally, [Mildred E Gillars], U.S. nazi propagandist (WW II), dies
		1948 Mildred Gillars (Axis Sally) pleads innocent in Washington D.C. Italy declares war on former Axis partner Germany
		1943 Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini met for an Axis conference in Salzburg
	www.brainyhistory.com /topics/a/axis.html (185 words)

	Varifrank: "Axis Sally" = "Axis Cindy"?
		Question: If ‘Axis Sally’ were alive today, would she be invited on Larry King, Hardball and Bill Maher and given a standing ovation?
		A nice, well composed picture of a grieving mother at graveside, from our friends at the AP.
		This woman has been invited as an honored guest to most news broadcasts and given standing ovations on Bill Mahers show.
	varifrank.com /archives/2005/08/axis_sally_axis.php (795 words)

	zww2propaganda
		WW II Propaganda Axis Sally Mildred Gillars 1.jpg 83KB
		WW II Propaganda Axis Sally Mildred Gillars 2.jpg 77KB
		WWII Propaganda Axis Sally 44-05-11 Vison of Invasion.mp3 5.11MB 40k
	www.otrclassics.com /zww2propaganda.htm (694 words)

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	search-desc.ebay.com /search/search.dll?query=axis+sally&newu=1&krd=1 (230 words)

	Mrs. Hastings
		REACTION BY ALLIED SOLDIER TO AXIS SALLY AND QUOTE FROM HER
		Axis Sally websites (radio propaganda– American for Germany)
		You and your partners will work together to create a radio broadcast designed to sway people to support your side (either Allies or Axis Powers).
	www.wcboe.org /schools/wihi/mrs__hastings.htm (1247 words)

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		Axis Sally : The Most Listened-to Woman Of World War Ii Publication Date
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	www.shop.com /op/aprod-p23032506 (188 words)

	Axis Sally
		rotten > Library > Biographies > Entertainers > Radio > Axis Sally
		Mildred Gillars was born in Maine on November 29, 1900.
	www.rotten.com /library/bio/entertainers/radio/axis-sally (144 words)

	In the Grand Tradition of Axis Sally and Tokyo Rose: NewsWeek Provides Their Own Version Of "The Protocols Of The Elders Of Zion" :: Follies of the Mainstream Media :: Hyscience
		In the Grand Tradition of Axis Sally and Tokyo Rose: NewsWeek Provides Their Own Version Of "The Protocols Of The Elders Of Zion" :: Follies of the Mainstream Media :: Hyscience
		In the Grand Tradition of Axis Sally and Tokyo Rose: NewsWeek Provides Their Own Version Of "The Protocols Of The Elders Of Zion"
		The liberal MSM sympathizes with the enemy and provide him psychological tools to create anger, hatred, and violence against the U.S., while virtually ignoring the intolerance and murderous violance of radical Muslims and Islamic terrorists.
	www.hyscience.com /archives/2005/05/in_the_grand_tr.php (544 words)

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	www.colinsargent.com (117 words)

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