1946: Axis Sally Captured, Frank Sinatra Conquers




Not Your Century show

Summary: U.S. counterintelligence agents capture American Nazi propagandist "Axis Sally," who'd been hiding out in Berlin since the end of World War II. Back in San Francisco, bobby soxers with notes from their parents skip school to line up for hours to see Frank Sinatra, whom the Chronicle calls an "astonishingly inoffensive and almost colorless young man." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices