MISLS Registries and Album

Seiki Oshiro, Paul Tani and Grant Ichikawa compiled two registries with the names of men and women of Japanese, Chinese and Korean ancestry and Caucasians. The registries can be downloaded at Dokumen: Military Intelligence Service Language School Registry 1941–46 is here and Military Intelligence Service (MIS) Registry Merged is here.

A major source for the registries is The MISLS Album which was published by the graduates in 1946. The album can be downloaded, in two parts, at the California State University Japanese American Digitization Project: Part 1 and Part 2.

The Americans and aliens of Chinese and Korean ancestry are the focus of this project. The registries and album had their names and most of their Army serial numbers. Ancestry.com was used to locate many of them in the censuses, passenger lists, school yearbooks, city directories, military records etc. The National Archives’ Electronic Army Serial Number Merged File was a helpful in confirming information in the registries. Another source was the scrapbook of Oak T. “Lawrence” Jay, my father, who had photographs and ephemera of his time at the MISLS.

Here are the names of the Chinese and Koreans in The MISLS Album with full names or notes in brackets.

GRADUATE LIST OF THE MILITARY INTELLIGENCE SERVICE 
LANGUAGE SCHOOL

CAMP SAVAGE

JUNE 1942 TERM
0-5
Pang, R. [Robert Fat Pang]
Chan, W. [Won-Loy Chan]

DECEMBER 1942 TERM
Section 21
Pang, R. [Robert Fat Pang]

JULY 1943 TERM
Section 6
Whang, D. [David Dukyil Whang]

Section 16
Chang, K.

Section R-18
Choy, J. [Joe Fook Choy]
Pak, K. [changed name to Ki Buck Park]

Section 24
Chang, S.

Section 25
Yoon, K. [Kenneth Won Marn Yoon]
Chan, W. [Won-Loy Chan?]
Ho, S. [Su C Ho]
Lee, A.
Sen, J. [John J. Sen]
Woo, H. [Henry Woo]
Lee, G. [Gary Wai Lee]

Section 26
Chin, W. [Wah Fook Chin]
Chow, J. [Jack Chow]
Fay, W. [Fay Shong Wong]
Goon, J. [Jin Hing Goon]
Kwock, B. [Bun Kwock]
Yep, D. [Donald Yep]

Section 28
Lee, K. [Kyusul Lee]

Section 29
Choy, S. [Samuel Choy or Stanley D. Choy]

Section 34
Lee, M. [Marion L. Lee, a Caucasian, in the registry; Moon S. Lee in the merged registry]
Lee, T.

Section 39
Lewe, H. [Harry Lewe]

FEBRUARY 1944 TERM
Division A
A-1
Yi, D. [Dong Chan Yi]

B-2
Jung, A. [Allen Durlin Jung]

E-12
Cho, J. [Jim Cho]
Dung, K. [Tse Dung Kao aka Kao T Dung aka Dan Kwong]
Jay, O. [Oak Ton Jay]
Lee, L. [Lim Poon Lee; Lincoln Lee in the registry]
Lee, Y. [Yubway Lee]
Tom, Y. [Ying Sing Tom aka Roy Sing Tom]
Wong, H. [Harlin Seegee Wong]
Young, C. [Cho G. Young]


FORT SNELLING

DECEMBER 1944 TERM
Ch-1
Yuen, Q. [Quan Hong Yuen]
Chew, E. [Edward Chew]
Chinn, H. [Howard Yen Chinn]
Chow, Y. [Yee Chow]
Chu, N. [“Norton” Nook Yuen Chu]
Eng, E. [Ernest Kwok Hing Eng]
Gong, H. [Hoo Wah Gong]
Jew, L. [Larry Jew]
Kan, W. [enlisted as Wong Y. Kan; naturalized as Robert King Wong]
Lee, A. [Arthur Lee]
Lee, B. [Bing Lee]
Lee, J. [Jen Pak Lee]
Lee, W. [“William” Wei Yuen Lee]
Lew, L. [Lawrence Lun “Larry” Lew]
Ng, W. [Wallace Fat Ng]
Ning, F. [Fong Pun Ning]
Shang, W. [“Richard” Shew Shang Wong]
Wong, G. [George Wong]
Wong, G. [Gin D. Wong]
Wong, K. [Kim Yoke Wong]
Wong, S. [Sang Wong]
Wong, S. [“Harry” Shek Pong Wong]
Wong, T. [Tom Wong]
Yee, H. 
Yee, K. [Kenneth Foo Ye]
Yee, N. [Ngin Yuen Yee]
Yee, T. [“Edmund” Tung Kwun Yee]

Ch-2
Get, Y. [draft card said Yee Hing Get; Hing Get Yee]
Jang, T. [Tim George Jang]
Kew, K. [Kip Lew, not Kew]
Lum, J. [James Lum]

Offen, H. [Herbert Offen]

Pang, W. [Walter Sun Pang]
Soo Hoo, B. [Bing Soo Hoo]
Soon, H. [Henry Hin Soon]

D-1
Chiong, K. [Kei-Beng Chiong aka Khe-Beng Chiong]

February 1945 Term
A-24
Pak, L. [Lloyd Chin Myung Pak]

B-22
Hyun, Peter

MARCH 1945 TERM
Lee, A.
Sen, J. [John J Sen]

APRIL 1945 TERM
E-5
Lee, M.

MAY 1945 TERM
EW-21
Chin, B. [Bertha Chin]

Thomas H. Gee was listed in registries but not found in the album. Chung Chu Ou or Ow was not found in the album or registries but his signature was on the May 19, 1945 class photograph.


In Nisei Linguists are two tables with the number of Chinese and Korean students.

Page 104, Table 1, Academic Terms November 1941 to February 1944
Enrollment
November 1941: 2 Chinese and 0 Korean
June 1942: 3 Chinese and 0 Korean
December 1942: 0 Chinese and Korean
July 1943: 52 Chinese and 0 Korean
February 1944: 20 Chinese and 0 Korean

Page 306, Table 2, Academic Terms August 1944 to March 1946
Enrollment
August 1944: 0 Chinese and Korean
September 1944: 0 Chinese and Korean
December 1944: 0 Chinese and 1 Korean
February 1945: 1 Chinese, 1 Korean
March 1945: 2 Chinese and 0 Korean
April 1945: 0 Chinese and Korean
May 1945: 0 Chinese and Korean
May 1945 WAC: 1 Chinese and 0 Korean
July 1945: 0 Chinese and 1 Korean
August 1945: 0 Chinese and Korean
September 1945: 0 Chinese and Korean
October 1945: 0 Chinese and Korean
January 1946: 0 Chinese and Korean
March 1946: 0 Chinese and Korean

According to Table 2 there were three Koreans. So far, my research has identified thirteen Koreans.

  1. Samuel Choy

  2. Stanley Bok Dung Choy

  3. Samuel Kyung Sook Hong

  4. Peter Hyun

  5. George Kelvin Lee

  6. Kyusul Lee

  7. Harry Lewe

  8. Daniel Yee Hai Lyum

  9. Lloyd Chin Myung Pak

10. Ki Pyok Park

11. David Dukyil Whang

12. Dong Chan Yi

13. Kenneth Won Marn Yoon. 

There might be more. Korea-born Young Soon Choy was a Japanese instructor. 


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Scrapbook of Oak T. “Lawrence” Jay
Profiles of the MISLS Students of Chinese and Korean Ancestry with Surname Beginning with C
Profiles of the MISLS Students of Chinese and Korean Ancestry with Surnames Beginning with D—K
Profiles of the MISLS Students of Chinese and Korean Ancestry with Surname Beginning with L
Profiles of the MISLS Students of Chinese and Korean Ancestry with Surnames Beginning with M—T
Profiles of the MISLS Students of Chinese and Korean Ancestry with Surnames Beginning with W—Y
MISLS Ephemera and Clippings

The MISLS Chinese Language Division

(Updated June 10, 2022)