Download or read book Nisei linguists Japanese Americans in the Military Intelligence Service During World War II Paperbound written by James C. McNaughton and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2006 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book tells the story of an unusual group of American soldiers in World War II, second-generation Japanese Americans (Nisei) who served as interpreters and translators in the Military Intelligence Service."--Preface.
Download or read book Nisei Linguists written by James C. McNaughton and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book tells the story of an unusual group of American soldiers in World War II, second-generation Japanese Americans (Nisei) who served as interpreters and translators in the Military Intelligence Service."--Preface.
Download or read book First Class written by David W. Swift and published by . This book was released on 2008-10-18 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paperback. A collection of memoirs and memories--writings of mostly Japanese American veterans and their family members of the first class of the US Army's first Intelligence Language School at the Presidio of San Francisco. They secretly began training in Japanese military language on November 1, 1941, nearly one month prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Download or read book First Class written by David W. Swift, Jr. and published by . This book was released on 2008-10-18 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hardback. A collection of memoirs and memories--writings of mostly Japanese American veterans and their family members of the first class of the US Army's first Intelligence Language School at the Presidio of San Francisco. They secretly began training in Japanese military language on November 1, 1941, nearly one month prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Download or read book U S Army Special Operations in World War II Paperback format only written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CMH 70-42. Army Special Publication. Discusses a variety of commando and guerrilla operations that were conducted on the plains of Europe and in the jungles of the Pacific to harass the Axis armies, to gather intelligence, and to support the more conventional Allied military efforts, yet their significance was a matter of dispute. Hogan examines the critical issues underlying special operations and shows how American leaders employed commandos - rangers in Army parlance - and guerrillas extensively, if not systematically, during the war. Other related products: World War II resources collection can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/catalog/us-military-history/battles-wars/world-war-ii Nisei Linguists: Japanese Americans in the Military Intelligence Service During World War II --Print Paperback format can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/008-029-00432-1 American Military History Volume 2: The United States Army in a Global Era, 1917-2008 --Print Hardcover format can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/008-029-00525-5 Special Operations Forces Medical Handbook -- Looseleaf with binder format-- can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/008-070-00810-6 --CD-ROM format can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/008-070-00816-5 --ePub format available from Apple iBookstore and Google Play eBookstore. Please use ISBN: 9780160867194 to search this title through their platform(s).
Download or read book Nisei the Quiet Americans written by Bill Hosokawa and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The whole world of the Nisei- American-born Japanese- was destroyed on the day Pearl Harbor was attacked. Bill Hosokawa tells of the events that led up to the unprecedented wholesale evacuation of 110,000 Japanese Americans to internment camps, the way the evacuation decision was reached, how the Nisei fought to avert it; life in the evacuation camps, how the decision was reached to form a Nisei combat battalion, and to use other Nisei for intelligence work in the Pacific, and how their heroism helped to win acceptance for all Japanese Americans. On the Military Intelligence History Reading List.
Download or read book Japanese Intelligence in World War II written by Ken Kotani and published by Osprey Publishing. This book was released on 2009-09-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the eyes of history, Japanese intelligence in World War II has fared very poorly. However, these historians have most often concentrated on the later years of the war, when Japan was fighting a multi-front war against numerous opponents. In this groundbreaking new study, Japanese scholar Ken Kotani re-examines the Japanese Intelligence department, beginning with the early phase of the war. He points out that without the intelligence gathered by the Japanese Army and Navy they would have been unable to achieve their long string of victories against the forces of Russia, China, and Great Britain. Notable in these early campaigns were the successful strikes against both Singapore and Pearl Harbor. Yet as these victories expanded the sphere of Japanese control, they also made it harder for the intelligence services to gather accurate information about their growing list of adversaries. At the battle of Midway in 1942, Japanese intelligence suffered its worst mishap when the Americans broke their code and tricked the Japanese into revealing the target of their attack. It was a mistake from which they would never recover. As the military might of Japan was forced to retreat and her forces deteriorated, so too did her intelligence services.
Download or read book John Aiso and the M I S written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the Presidio of San Francisco, Aiso was originally assigned as a student, but was soon promoted to assistant instructor and then head instructor. At this time, Aiso was introduced to Akira Oshida and Shigeya Kihara, who worked with Aiso as civilian Japanese instructors. Together with Oshida and Kihara and several other civilian instructors, Aiso prepared teaching materials and the school was formally opened on November 1, 1941. Following the outbreak of war on December 7, 1941, and the forced removal of Japanese Americans from the Pacific Coast to incarceration camps, the school was transferred from San Francisco to Camp Savage, Minnesota, and placed directly under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Army, Military Intelligence Division. The army provided personnel, logistical, and administrative support, but the doctrine, development, and implementation of the program remained with John Aiso, now the director of training. By the end of the war in 1945, Aiso had turned out over 6,000 military intelligence specialists. General Charles Willoughby stated that the MIS men shortened the war by two years and saved a million lives.
Download or read book Kanji Codes written by Irwin L. Slesnick and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Honor by Fire written by Lyn Crost and published by Presidio Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the Nisei (first-generation Japanese Americans) Purple-Heart Battalion.
Download or read book Nisei Soldiers Break Their Silence written by Linda Tamura and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2012-12-15 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nisei Soldiers Break Their Silence is a compelling story of courage, community, endurance, and reparation. It shares the experiences of Japanese Americans (Nisei) who served in the U.S. Army during World War II, fighting on the front lines in Italy and France, serving as linguists in the South Pacific, and working as cooks and medics. The soldiers were from Hood River, Oregon, where their families were landowners and fruit growers. Town leaders, including veterans' groups, attempted to prevent their return after the war and stripped their names from the local war memorial. All of the soldiers were American citizens, but their parents were Japanese immigrants and had been imprisoned in camps as a consequence of Executive Order 9066. The racist homecoming that the Hood River Japanese American soldiers received was decried across the nation. Linda Tamura, who grew up in Hood River and whose father was a veteran of the war, conducted extensive oral histories with the veterans, their families, and members of the community. She had access to hundreds of recently uncovered letters and documents from private files of a local veterans' group that led the campaign against the Japanese American soldiers. This book also includes the little known story of local Nisei veterans who spent 40 years appealing their convictions for insubordination. Watch the book trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHMcFdmixLk
Download or read book Focus on libraries written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Japanese Americans Interpreters During WWII written by R. E. D. Dot RED DOT PUBLICATIONS and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-16 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approximately 6,000 Japanese Americans served in the Military Intelligence Service (MIS).[13] The first class received their training at the Presidio in San Francisco, but in June 1942 the MIS Language School was moved to Camp Savage, Minnesota, which offered larger facilities, removed the complications of training Japanese American students in an area they were technically prohibited from entering and had less anti-Japanese prejudice. In August 1944, the language school was moved again to Fort Snelling. Most of the MIS Language School graduates were attached to the Allied Translator and Interpreter Section (ATIS) as linguists and in other non-combatant roles, interpreting captured enemy documents and interrogating prisoners of war. (At the end of the war, MIS linguists had translated 18,000 enemy documents, created 16,000 propaganda leaflets and interrogated over 10,000 Japanese POWs.) However, MIS servicemen were present at every major battle against Japanese forces, and those who served in combat faced extremely dangerous and difficult conditions, sometimes coming under friendly fire from U.S. soldiers unable to distinguish them from the Japanese and often encountering former friends on the battlefield.Japanese American MIS linguists translated Japanese documents known as the "Z Plan", which contained Japan's counterattack strategy in the Central Pacific. This information led to Allied victories at the Battle of the Philippine Sea, in which the Japanese lost most of their aircraft carrier planes and the Battle of Leyte Gulf. An MIS radio operator intercepted a message describing Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto's flight plans, which led to P-38 Lightning fighter planes shooting down his plane over the Solomon Islands.
Download or read book When the Akimotos Went to War written by Matthew Elms and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2015 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An American story of Heroism, Family, Patrotism and Sacrifice During World War II The newly released non-fiction book, When the Akimotos Went to War: An untold story of family, patriotism and sacrifice during World War II, captures the story of three Japanese American brothers--Victor, Johnny, and Ted Akimoto--who volunteered for military service while their family members were forced into an internment camp. Despite the nation-wide fear of the Nisei--the first generation of Japanese children born in the United States who were American citizens--the Akimoto brothers pledged their loyalty and bravery to the U.S. military, wanting to prove that being an American ran deeper than race. Through the use of photographs, letters, and original documents, the voices of these three brothers are heard throughout the book From stateside training to fighting in Europe, the Akimoto brothers served proudly, hoping to help change public perception of Japanese Americans. But ultimately, not all of the brothers return after the war, proving that bullets and disease do not discriminate. This story turns back the pages of history and allows the reader and insight into the human side of war , told through a single family. The Akimoto family and this collection of their decisions have lessons to teach all of us about life and death while also providing us a view and better understanding of the Japanese-American experience during World War II. This story will engage middle school students and above to identify and understand the struggles that Japanese-American soldiers endured during World War II. This content will help students expand their knowledge about U.S. history to include an understanding of training camps, shipping out overseas, loss of life, and prisoner of war camps during World War II. Other related products: Nisei Linguists: Japanese Americans in the Military Intelligence Service During World War II -print paperback format can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/008-029-00432-1 ePub eBook format can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/999-000-33332-4 World War II collection can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/catalog/us-military-history/battles-wars/world-war-ii
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Download or read book The Japanese War written by Sadao Oba and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translated by Ann Kaneko. How British school pupils were recruited to learn in 18 months or less what was then considered to be the most difficult language in the world, in order to become translators, interpreters and interrogators for the allied effort in the Pacific War - a staggering 648 experts in the period 1942-47.
Download or read book Nisei Linguists written by James C. McNaughton and published by Department of the Army. This book was released on 2006 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the start of World War, II the U.S. Army turned to Americans of Japanese ancestry to provide vital intelligence against Japanese forces in the Pacific. Nisei Linguists: Japanese Americans in the Military Intelligence Service during World War II tells the story of these soldiers, how the Military Intelligence Service (MIS) recruited and trained them, and how they served in every battle and campaign in the war against Japan. Months before Pearl Harbor, the Western Defense Command (WDC) selected sixty Nisei soldiers for Japanese-language training. When the WDC forcibly removed more than 100,000 persons of Japanese ancestry from the West Coast, MIS continued to recruit Nisei from the relocation camps and later from Hawaii. Over the next four years, the school graduated nearly 6,000 military linguists, including dozens of Nisei women and hundreds of Caucasians. Nisei Linguists tells the remarkable story of those who served with Army and Marine units from Guadalcanal to the Philippines, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa. Their duties included translation, interrogation, radio monitoring, and psychological warfare. They staffed theater-level intelligence centers such as the Allied Translator and Interpreter Section in the Southwest Pacific Area. In China, Burma, and India they served with the Office of Strategic Services, Merrill’s Marauders, and Commonwealth forces. Others served with the Army Air Forces or within the continental United States. At war’s end, the Nisei facilitated local surrenders of Japanese forces as well as the occupation. Working in military government, war crimes trials, censorship, and counterintelligence, the MIS Nisei contributed to the occupation’s ultimate success.
