ddr-densho-1007 — Loni Ding Oral History and Film Research Collection — Objects

doc History of U.S. Naval Technical Mission to Japan (ddr-densho-1007-1829)

Historical narrative to Chief of Naval Operations from the Chief of U.S. Naval Technical Mission to Japan. This narrative, or report, was sent November 1, 1946 and details intelligence gathered to assess the state of Japanese scientific and technological capabilities following the end of World War II. Page 7 of the report is missing.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-1829/

doc The Companies of the Damned (ddr-densho-1007-1830)

This article describes the treatment experienced by German, Japanese, and Italian men who served in the American army during World War II. These men were suspected of being disloyal, removed from combat, and labeled as subversives and Axis aliens. The article also goes into detail about a mutiny at Camp Hale in Colorado as a result …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-1830/

doc The American Concentration Camps: A Cover-Up Through Euphemistic Terminology (ddr-densho-1007-1831)

This essay is a revised version of Raymond Y. Okamura's testimony to the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians describing policies and terminology used by the U.S. government to enforce wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans. He compares the American government's misleading terminology to that of Nazi propaganda. See related object: ddr-densho-1007-1814.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-1831/

doc Brochure: Inter-Generational Legacy of the Japanese American Community (ddr-densho-1007-1832)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-1832/

doc Panel asks reparations for Japanese-American internees (ddr-densho-1007-1833)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-1833/

doc Excerpt: Testimony of Karl R. Bendetsen (ddr-densho-1007-1834)

Karl R. Bendetsen's statement to the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians defending the argument that incarceration of Japanese Americans was a national security matter which he believed was supported by wartime intelligence, known as MAGIC. He also disputes claims of harm and prison-like living conditions in the camps.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-1834/

doc Book Review: Personal Justice Denied (ddr-densho-1007-1835)

Book review and scholarly critique of Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians (CWRIC) Report by Raymond Okamura.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-1835/

doc Memorandum to Loni Ding from Aiko and Jack Herzig (ddr-densho-1007-1836)

Compilation of archival and other research materials at the University of Washington, University of California, Los Angeles, NARA, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania related to Japanese American life before the war, incarceration, resistance, and other wartime experience.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-1836/

doc Speech: National Memorial Service in Honor of Japanese-American Servicemen who Fought in World War II (ddr-densho-1007-1837)

Speech by Akiji Yoshimura delivered February 20, 1977 honoring military service and contributions of Japanese Americans.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-1837/

doc Will Japanese Emigrants Conquer America? (ddr-densho-1007-1838)

A 1971 report containing discriminatory and xenophobic arguments against Asian and other non-European immigration to the United States. It suggests that the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, also known as the Kennedy Immigration Act, had multiple harmful political, cultural, and economic consequences. This report was published by the American Immigration Committee, Vol. 1, No 3.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-1838/

doc The Japanese Community in the Twin Cities (ddr-densho-1007-1839)

Essay by Gladys I. Stone describing the development of Japanese American communities in Minnesota from the early 1900s through the post-World War II period. It was published in the Hennepin County History, Quarterly Publication of the Hennepin County Historical Society, Volume 47, Number 1, Winter 1988.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-1839/

doc Nisei's Devotion - Beyond the Call of Duty (ddr-densho-1007-1840)

Speech by Tom Sakamoto at the 1988 JACL Installation Dinner describing his experiences growing up in San Jose's Japantown, wartime experience and military service, and the impact of Japanese American treatment during World War II.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-1840/

doc Booklet: Japanese Americans Play Vital Role in United States Intelligence Service in World War II (ddr-densho-1007-1841)

This booklet was written in 1946 by retired Brigadier General John Weckerling and examines the overlooked role Japanese Americans played in U.S. military intelligence during World War II. Nisei linguists and the Military Intelligence Service Language School are given particular emphasis.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-1841/

doc Background Information on Spark Masayuki Matsunaga (ddr-densho-1007-1842)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-1842/

doc Testimony of Kiku Hori Funabiki (ddr-densho-1007-1843)

Kiku Funabiki's testimony and related supplemental material describing her family's incarceration at Heart Mountain, Wyoming and its lasting impact.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-1843/

doc Appeals for Release of George K. Uno (ddr-densho-1007-1844)

George K. Uno's petition for release from Crystal City Camp.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-1844/

doc They Work for Victory: The Story of the Japanese Americans and the War Effort (ddr-densho-1007-1845)

Booklet on the war effort of the Nisei in the United States during World War II.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-1845/

doc Program: The Liberators. The Simon Wiesenthal Center Honors The American Soldiers Who Liberated European Jewry (ddr-densho-1007-1846)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-1846/

doc A Fellow Veteran Remembers (ddr-densho-1007-1847)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-1847/

doc Speech: Bruyeres Liberation Anniversary (ddr-densho-1007-1848)

Draft of speech by a resident of Bruyeres, France, Dr. Collin, on the fortieth anniversary of the town's liberation. Dr. Collin delivered the speech to veterans of the 100th Infantry Battalion and the 442nd Regimental Combat Team who were the town's liberators.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-1848/

doc Booklet: With Hawaii's AJA Boys at Camp Shelby Mississippi (ddr-densho-1007-1849)

Pamphlet describing the training of the 442nd Infantry Combat Team at Camp Shelby, Mississippi.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-1849/

doc Press Release: Senator Daniel K. Inouye National Defense Speech (ddr-densho-1007-1850)

U.S. Senator Daniel K. Inouye's speech at the 100th/442nd Regimental Combat Team and 36th Division Association Reunion on August 30, 1980.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-1850/

doc Press Release: "Magic" (ddr-densho-1007-1851)

Press release draft from 1983 that uses declassified U.S. intelligence on the Japanese government, known as the Magic, to argue that the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II was unjustified.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-1851/