WORLD WAR TWO.- AMERICAN PROPAGANDA LEAFLETS AIMED AT JAPAN AND CHINA

WORLD WAR TWO.- AMERICAN PROPAGANDA LEAFLETS AIMED AT JAPAN AND CHINAboo

Each with US stamps and/or USS Marvin H. McIntyre ink stamps, including:

‘Believing the Japanese military’s hoax and fleeing into hiding, the residents are now coming down to our town’, with 2 duplicates,

A leaflet discussing the Allied leaders at the Potsdam conference, with 29 duplicates;

‘After eighty-two days of fighting, the battle of Okinawa has been won’, with 2 duplicates;

‘Emperor George V participated in the same attack several times’, with 14 duplicates;

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***The first large-scale use of PSYOP in the Pacific was the Okinawa campaign, when more than six million leaflets were dropped. The campaign was considered a great success and saw the surrender of 11,409 Japanese soldiers.