About the Military Intelligence Service Language School

During World War II the United States military prepared for the invasion and occupation of Japan and surrounding Japanese-held territories. Thousands of Japanese linguists were needed. The U.S. Army established the Military Intelligence Service Language School (MISLS). That story is told in James C. McNaughton’s book Nisei Linguists: Japanese Americans in the Military Intelligence Service During World War II (2006).

A digital copy of the book can be downloaded at the U.S. Army Center of Military History. The book can be purchased at the U.S. Government Bookstore.

Additional information about the MISLS
National Archives
The Beginnings of the United States Army’s Japanese Language Training
Densho Encyclopedia
Military Intelligence Service Language School
Military Intelligence Service
Historic Fort Snelling
Overview and History of the MISLS
Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center
75th Anniversary Special: The Savage and Snelling years

John Aiso and the M.I.S.: Japanese-American Soldiers in the Military Intelligence Service, World War II
Tad Ichinokuchi, assisted by Daniel Aiso. 
Military Intelligence Service Club of Southern California, 1988
available in hardcover and paperback editions


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