Military Intelligence Service

The first Japanese Americans to serve in the military during World War II were linguists involved in the Military Intelligence Service Language School (MISLS). The MISLS was charged with training soldiers in the Japanese language for intelligence purposes. Japanese Americans served as both instructors and students at the school, which opened on November 1, 1941. The Language School began recruiting instructors and later students directly from concentration camps as early as July 1942. MISLS graduates were assigned in small teams to units fighting in the Pacific and to intelligence centers throughout the Allied command. They translated captured documents, interrogated prisoners of war, wrote propaganda, encouraged Japanese soldiers and civilians to surrender, and monitored radio broadcasts. After the war, they acted as interpreters at the war crime trials and for the occupation government in Japan.

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doc Letter from Jim Mita, President, Military Intelligence Service Club of Southern California to the members (ddr-csujad-1-186)

A letter from Jim Mita, President, Military Intelligence Service Club of Southern California, to the members. Includes updates on their activities. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: ike_02_17_002

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-1-186/

doc MISLS album 1946 (ddr-csujad-1-208)

An album of the Military Intelligence Service Language School. It depicts the operation, training, life, and activities at the schools of Presidio San Francisco and Savage and Fort Snelling Minnesota, and also includes the description of the oversee campaign in the Pacific where MIS solders served. The names of MISLS graduates from three schools are listed. …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-1-208/

doc Highways of honor, Military Intelligence Service, 442nd Regimental Combat Team, 100th Infantry Battalion (ddr-csujad-1-185)

A booklet of California memorial highways to honor three entities of the United States Army, 100th Infantry Battalion, 442nd Regimental Combat Team, and Military Intelligence Service. Includes an article, "The Nisei soldiers of U.S. Intelligence: America's superb secret weapon of World War II" by Dan Nakatsu. Images and map during the Pacific War are included. See …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-1-185/

doc 4 Day MIS 50th Anniversary Reunion program outline (ddr-csujad-1-191)

Program outline for 4 Day MIS 50th Anniversary Reunion held from October 29 to November 2, 1991. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: ike_03_01_005

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-1-191/

doc MIS intelligencer, volume 32, number 1, Jan 2000 (ddr-csujad-1-74)

An issue of "MIS intelligencer," volume 32, number 1, (Jan 2000). which is an official newsletter of the MIS Association, Northern California, Inc. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: ike_02_07_003

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-1-74/

doc [Newspaper articles from "Pacific citizen"] (ddr-csujad-1-192)

Newspaper clippings from "Pacific citizen" published on November 22, 1991. Includes two articles collecting Nisei Military Intelligent Service's experience. "Surviving and spying behind enemy lines" written by Harry K. Honda, Senior editor, Pacific Citizen, describes Sakakida's story of wartime intrigue, which was delivered at the MIS 50th anniversary reunion dinner on October 31, 1991. "Anecdotes by …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-1-192/

doc Letter from Drusilla Tanaka to Col. Kim with article (ddr-csujad-1-65)

A photocopy of a letter from Drusilla Tanaka, one of the Board's Research Team members, to Col. Kim. In the letter, Drusilla Tanaka described her team's research on Americans of Japanese Ancestry who were killed in action during World War II. The other members' names of the Board's Research Team, Karleen Chinen and Ted Tsukiyama, are …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-1-65/

doc Military Intelligence Service Club of Southern California, No. 2, 2000 (ddr-csujad-1-72)

An issue of "Military Intelligence Service Club of Southern California" published in 2000. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: ike_02_07_001

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-1-72/

img Nisei veterans and spouses group photograph (ddr-densho-325-108)

Eighteen Nisei veterans and their spouses met for a reunion on April 7, 1995. These eighteen men had all been stationed at Camp Grant, Illinois in 1941-1942. From there the group separated some attending combat infantry training at Camp Blanding, Florida and then to the 442nd Regimental Combat Team in Europe and others like Sumito Horiuchi …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-325-108/

doc Nisei veterans news (ddr-densho-325-109)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-325-109/

doc Page of Hisa Nimura Horiuchi Scrapbook (ddr-densho-325-41)

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img Military Intelligence Language School (ddr-densho-325-128)

Written on the back of the photograph is written "Fort Snelling Language School 1944 Sumito Horiuchi".

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-325-128/

img Nisei veterans (ddr-densho-325-107)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-325-107/

img Nisei soldier (ddr-densho-325-134)

Sumito Horiuchi posing in front of chalkboard at Military Language School at Fort Snelling, Minnesota. The front is inscribed "Hisa, Your Sincerely Sumito Horiuchi". On the back of the photograph is written "Sumito Horiuchi Fort Snelling - 1945".

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-325-134/

img Military Intelligence Language Class (ddr-densho-325-127)

The front of the photograph is signed by most of the class. Back row left to right is Frank Jimbo, Frank Yamamoto "Calif", Robert T[illegible] Hawaii, Nasuo Hashiguchi, Shegeo M[illegible], Yosheo [illegible], Stanley F[illegible] "Martinez", and [illegible]. Front row left to right is [illegible], Sumito Horiuchi, Masagi Okada Hawaii, unknown, unknown, H[illegible] [illegible], Otsushi Moori, T[illegible] …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-325-127/

doc Page of Hisa Nimura Horiuchi Scrapbook (ddr-densho-325-35)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-325-35/

img Page of Hisa Nimura Horiuchi Scrapbook (ddr-densho-325-34)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-325-34/

img Nisei soldiers (ddr-densho-325-121)

Nisei soldiers enjoying roasting hot dogs over a fire. Sumito Horiuchi is second from left. The back of the photograph reads "Picnic Sumito Horiuchi Fort Snelling Minnesota" in blue ink and "8 July 1945" and a message in Japanese in black ink.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-325-121/

img Matuso Sakagami at Fort Snelling (ddr-densho-328-9)

Caption in album: "Big brother in Fort Snelling."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-328-9/

img Four mess workers at Fort Snelling (ddr-densho-328-64)

Matsuo Sakagami second from left.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-328-64/

img Masaru Yoshioka (ddr-densho-357-734)

Masaru Yoshioka trains for military service at Camp Savage in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Japanese Americans in the United States Army's Military Intelligence Service were trained in translating captured Japanese documents at Camp Savage during WWII.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-357-734/

doc 11th Triennial Nisei Veterans Reunion Maui News supplement (ddr-densho-390-139)

Articles on the 11th Nisei Veterans Reunion held in Maui, with a list of participants. Walter Matsuoka is listed on page 24 with the Veterans of Foreign Wars.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-390-139/