First class
Subtitle: Nisei linguists in World War II : origins of the Military Intelligence Service Language Program
By: David W. Swift
Contributors: National Japanese American Historical Society (U.S.)
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: National Japanese American Historical Society
Published: 2008
Place of publication: San Francisco, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781881506157
Subjects: Japanese Americans; Japanese American soldiers; Japanese American Participation; United States; Translating services; World War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924; Military Intelligence Service Language School (U.S.); World War, 1939-1945; United States. War Department. Military Intelligence Service; Personal narratives; Military intelligence; Biography; History
Other titles: Nisei linguists in World War II; Origins of the Military Intelligence Service Language Program
Description: "Through oral histories, memoirs and rare photographs, David W. Swift Jr. (whose Caucasian father was among these men) documents the Military Intelligence Service (MIS) First Class. One month before the attack on Pearl Harbor, these men, mostly Japanese American enlisted soldiers, were secretly recruited and trained at the Presidio of San Francisco. They made vital contributions to America's war effort, helping to shorten the war in the Pacific. Their personal accounts detail their classified exploits as translators, interrogators and interpreters in every major battlefield in the Pacific."--
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Students. Jim Masaru Ariyasu; title: John Alfred Burden; title: James Takao Fujimura; title: William Hirashima; title: Yoshio Hotta; title: Tsuneo Gary Kadani; title: Arthur M. Kaneko; title: David M. Kato; title: Kazuo Kawaguchi; title: Iwao Roy Kawashiri; title: Kazuo Kozaki; title: Takashi Kubo; title: Takeo "Tak" Kubo; title: Isao "Ace" Kusuda; title: Paul Yasuo Kuyama; title: Joe Yuzuru Masuda; title: Masao Matsumoto; title: James Matsumura; title: Masami Mayeda; title: Masanori Minamoto; title: Yoshio Moria Miyaoi; title: Tateshi Miyasaki; title: Mac Nobuo Nagata; title: Ichiro Nishida; title: William Susumu Nishikawa; title: Morio Nishita; title: Fred H. Nishitsuji; title: Yoshio T. Noritake; title: Jack Kazuo Ohashi; title: Hiromi Oyama; title: Kiyoshi Kaye Sakamoto; title: Thomas T. Sakamoto; title: Ryuichi Shinoda; title: Sam S. Sugimoto; title: Henry Suyehira; title: David Wallace Swift; title: George S. Taketa; title: James Nobuyuki Tanizawa; title: Hideo Tsuyuki; title: Masaji Gene Uratsu; title: Steve Shizuma Yamamoto; title: Shigeru Yamashita.; title: Instructors. John Fujio Aiso; title: Tetsuo Imagawa; title: Shigeya Kihara; title: Akira Oshida; title: Thomas Noboru Tanimoto; title: Paul Tsutomu Tekawa; title: Toshio "Tusky" George Tsukahira; title: Tadashi Yamada.; title: Administrators; title: Appendix. Documents ; Commendations ; Graduation greetings ; Reunion photo.