· San Francisco, California

Military Intelligence Service Language School Opens

achievement

The Army opened a secret Japanese-language school at the Presidio of San Francisco; its Nisei graduates-the Military Intelligence Service-served as translators and interrogators in the Pacific even as their families were incarcerated, and were later called 'America's secret weapon.'

Communities
  • Japanese American
Topics
  • military
Event type
  • founding

Sources

  • army.mil army.mil/article/113900/japanese_language_school_opened_at_presidio_of_san_francisco_1_november_1941
  • encyclopedia.densho.org encyclopedia.densho.org/Military_Intelligence_Service_Language_School