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Article: "They are our human secret weapons": the military intelligence service and the role of Japanese-Americans in the pacific war and in the occupation of Japan (1).(Report)
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- The Historian
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- March 22, 2008
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UNDER A SHROUD OF SECRECY and with the backing of the U.S. War Department, the Military Intelligence Service (MIS) trained and graduated nearly 6,000 linguists--of whom the majority were Japanese-Americans. They ultimately played a decisive role in the victory of American forces over Japan in the Pacific. According to Major General Charles Willoughby, G2 Intelligence chief for General Douglas MacArthur, these Nisei, or second-generation Japanese-Americans, "shortened the Pacific war by two years." (2) They were among the first soldiers to arrive in Japan after its surrender, and they became some of the first American observers to witness the destructive effects of the ...
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