Nisei linguists
Subtitle: Japanese Americans in the Military Intelligence Service during World War II
By: by James C. McNaughton
Edition: "An Uncommon Valor Reprint Edition"--title page verso.
Series: Uncommon Valor series reprint edition; Uncommon Valor series reprint edition
Publisher: Department of the Army
Published: 2006
Place of publication: [United States]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 514
ISBN-13: 9781536857290
Copyright date: 2006
Subjects: History; World War, 1939-1945; Japanese American Participation; Military intelligence; Translating services; Japanese Americans; United States. War Department. Military Intelligence Service; United States; Military Intelligence Service Language School (U.S.)
Other titles: Japanese Americans in the Military Intelligence Service during World War II.
Description: "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.
Notes: PIN: 082667-000.

Originally published by the Dept. of the Army in 2006.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 463-489) and index.
Table of contents: title: The U.S. Army and the Nisei before Pearl Harbor; title: Fourth Army intelligence school, November 1941-May 1942; title: MIS Nisei pioneers, May 1942-February 1943; title: Camp Savage, 1942-1943; title: Camp Savage, 1943-1944; title: MIS Nisei in the campaigns of 1943; title: MIS Nisei serving in the continental United States, 1943-1945; title: MIS Nisei in the campaigns of 1944; title: Fort Snelling, 1944-1945; title: MIS Nisei in the campaigns of 1945; title: MIS Nisei and the surrender of Japan, August-September 1945; title: MIS Nisei and the early occupation of Japan, September 1945-February 1946; title: Epilogue: MIS Nisei and history.