JAPANESE PROPAGANDA

Probably the single most successful propaganda of the Pacific War was a scene of the US flag being lowered on Corregidor, and then desecrated. It was accepted as being accurate, and even if it wasn't, it satisfied a need, and it was repeated so often that it became established in the public mind as genuine. The truth, of course, was that it was staged for the newsreel public, and the media swallowed the fake hook line and sinker - and it wouldn't be the first or last time either. However, the Japanese underestimated the bitterness it engendered, it became raw material for virulent anti-Japanese propaganda. For the true story of the lowering of the US flag on Corregidor, read on.