"Axis Sally was a female radio personality during World War II. Born Mildred Elizabeth Sisk in Portland, Maine, 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 met with little success. Gillars studied drama at Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, OH, but dropped out before graduating. Wikipedia
Her parents, Vincent Sisk and Mae Hewitson Sisk, were divorced in 1907, and a few years later Mildred's mother married a dentist, Dr. Robert Bruce Gillars. web.archive.org/web/20030818235259/http://womenshistory.a...
Mildred Elizabeth Sisk (aka Axis Sally) was 56-years-old when she began serving a federal prison sentence for treason in 1949. thesmokinggun.com/mugshots/axissallymug1.html
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Mildred Gillars aka "Axis Sally" signs on for the Reichsrundfunk Overseas Service in Berlin, broadcast to North America May 18, 1943. www.earthstation1.com/Axis_Sally.html
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While teaching English in Berlin, Gillars was recruited by Radio Berlin for her sultry voice and her native tongue; her job would be to spread propaganda to American soldiers fighting in Europe. She introduced herself as "Midge at the mic", but American ww2db.com/person_bio.php?person_id=O427
