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Books about US military intelligence

First Class: Nisei linguists in World War II by David W. Swift (Editor) Paperback. A collection of memoirs and memories--writings of mostly Japanese American veterans and their family members of the first class of the US Army's first Intelligence Language School at the Presidio of San Francisco. They secretly began training in Japanese military language on November 1, 1941, nearly one month prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Call Number: HAWN D769.8.A6 S95 2008

ISBN: 9781881506157

Publication Date: 2008-10-18
Nisei Linguists by James C. McNaughton; Center of Military History (U.S. Army) Staff (Produced by) At the start of World War, II the U.S. Army turned to Americans of Japanese ancestry to provide vital intelligence against Japanese forces in the Pacific. Nisei Linguists: Japanese Americans in the Military Intelligence Service during World War II tells the story of these soldiers, how the Military Intelligence Service (MIS) recruited and trained them, and how they served in every battle and campaign in the war against Japan. Months before Pearl Harbor, the Western Defense Command (WDC) selected sixty Nisei soldiers for Japanese-language training. When the WDC forcibly removed more than 100,000 persons of Japanese ancestry from the West Coast, MIS continued to recruit Nisei from the relocation camps and later from Hawaii. Over the next four years, the school graduated nearly 6,000 military linguists, including dozens of Nisei women and hundreds of Caucasians. Nisei Linguists tells the remarkable story of those who served with Army and Marine units from Guadalcanal to the Philippines, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa. Their duties included translation, interrogation, radio monitoring, and psychological warfare. They staffed theater-level intelligence centers such as the Allied Translator and Interpreter Section in the Southwest Pacific Area. In China, Burma, and India they served with the Office of Strategic Services, Merrill's Marauders, and Commonwealth forces. Others served with the Army Air Forces or within the continental United States. At war's end, the Nisei facilitated local surrenders of Japanese forces as well as the occupation. Working in military government, war crimes trials, censorship, and counterintelligence, the MIS Nisei contributed to the occupation's ultimate success.
Call Number: MAIN D769.8.A6 M45 2006 and other locations

ISBN: 9780160729577

Publication Date: 2007-03-20
Americans of Japanese ancestry and their contributions to the Second World War by Various
Call Number: MICROFILM 1792
John Aiso and the M.I.S. : Japanese-American soldiers in the Military Intelligence Service, World War II by Ichinokuchi, Tad; Aiso, Daniel
Call Number: Main D810.S7 J58 1988

Publication Date: 1988
U. S. Navy Codebreakers, Linguists, and Intelligence Officers Against Japan, 1910-1941 by Steven E. Maffeo This unique reference presents 59 biographies of people who were key to the sea services being reasonably prepared to fight the Japanese Empire when the Second World War broke out, and whose advanced work proved crucial. These intelligence pioneers invented techniques, procedures, and equipment from scratch, not only allowing the United States to hold its own in the Pacific despite the loss of most of its Fleet at Pearl Harbor, but also laying the foundation of today's intelligence methods and agencies. One-hundred years ago, in what was clearly an unsophisticated pre-information era, naval intelligence (and foreign intelligence in general) existed in rudimentary forms almost incomprehensible to us today. Founded in 1882, the U.S. Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI)--the modern world's "oldest continuously operating intelligence agency"--functioned for at least its first forty years with low manning, small budgets, low priority, and no prestige. The navy's early steps into communications intelligence (COMINT), which included activities such as radio interception, radio traffic analysis, and cryptology, came with the 1916 establishment of the Code and Signals Section within the navy's Division of Communications and with the 1924 creation of the "Research Desk" as part of the Section. Like ONI, this COMINT organization suffered from low budgets, manning, priority, and prestige. The dictionary focuses on these pioneers, many of whom went on, even after World War II, to important positions in the Navy, the State Department, the Armed Forces Security Agency, the National Security Agency, and the Central Intelligence Agency. It reveals the work and innovations of well and lesser-known individuals who created the foundations of today's intelligence apparatus and analysis.
Call Number: ebook

ISBN: 1442255633

Publication Date: 2015-12-16

Online resources about US military intelligence

The U.S. Army and World War II : selected papers from the Army's Commemorative Conferences by Judith L. Bellafaire (Editor)
Call Number: GOVD D 114.2:W 89

ISBN: 9780160495892

Publication Date: 1998-06-24

CMH Publication 68-4. Judith L. Bellafaire, general editor. Contains the best of the papers presented at three international conferences held on the United States Army's role in World War 2. These papers have been divided into four general categories: prewar planning; home front; European theater; andPacific theater.

National World War II Museum: Military Intelligence Service (MIS)
Roughly 6,000 Japanese Americans served as translators and interpreters with the Military Intelligence Service (MIS) in the Pacific, using the language of their parents and grandparents to shorten the war and save lives.
Military Intelligence Service Language School, U.S. Army
Book about the language school at Fort Snelling, MN
"Loyal Linguists: Nisei of World War II Learned Japanese in Minnesota,"
Article in Fall 1997 issue of Minnesota History
Military Intelligence Service Language School at Fort Snelling: Overview
Minnesota Historical Society guide to resources about military intelligence. Includes bibliographies and links to oral histories.
Nisei in the war against Japan
Illustrated pamphlet on Japanese Americans in the 442nd Regimental Combat Team and 100th Battalion. Includes an article about Ben Kuroki, the only American of Japanese descent in the United States Army Air Forces to serve in combat operations in the Pacific theater of World War II. A description of the Military Intelligence Service consisted of two branches, one of which was a Japanese American unit.
Densho Digital Repository
Contains documents, articles, photographs, and other resources about Japanese American internment and military service.

Books about Japanese military intelligence

Japanese Intelligence in World War II by Ken Kotani Western studies of Japanese Intelligence in World War II have invariably concluded that this service was very poor. However, these studies have always concentrated on the later years of the war, when Japan was fighting a multi-front war against numerous opponents. In this groundbreaking new study, Japanese scholar Ken Kotani re-examines the Japanese Intelligence department, beginning with the early phase of the war. He points out that without the intelligence gathered by the Japanese Army and Navy they would have been unable to achieve their long string of victories against the forces of Russia, China, and Great Britain. Notable in these early campaigns were the successful strikes against both Singapore and Pearl Harbor.
Call Number: Main UB251.J3 K6813 2009

ISBN: 9781846034251

Publication Date: 2009-09-22
The Shadow Warriors of Nakano by Stephen C. Mercado In the history of the twentieth century, the role of the military intelligence services in the competition among nations is still murky. Among the world's foremost intelligence services, those of Imperial Japan remain the least known. Few stories are as compelling as those surrounding the Japanese Army's Nakano School. From 1938 to 1945, the Nakano School trained more than 2,000 men in intelligence gathering, propaganda, and irregular warfare. Working in the shadows, these dedicated warriors executed a range of missions, from gathering intelligence in Latin America to leading commando raids against American lines in Papua New Guinea, in the Philippines, and on Okinawa. They played major roles in operations to subvert British rule in India, and they organized Japanese civilians into guerrilla units that would have made the invasion of Japan a bloodbath. One graduate used his Nakano commando training to elude U.S. and Philippine military patrols until emerging from the jungle nearly thirty years after the war's end. In the decades after World War II, graduates of the school worked to obtain from the United States and Russia the release of imprisoned war criminals and the recovery of lost territory, including Okinawa. Based on archival research and the memoirs of Japanese veterans, The Shadow Warriors of Nakano shines a much-needed light into the shadows of World War II and postwar Japanese affairs.
Call Number: Asia D810.S7 M43 2002

ISBN: 9781574884432

Publication Date: 2002-07-16
Rikugun Nakano Gakkō 陸軍中野学校 / 畠山清行. by Hatakeyama, Seikō, 畠山清行
Call Number: East Asia UB271.J3 H3 1966

Publication Date: 1966-1967

Japanese military and naval intelligence division. : Japanese Intelligence Section, G-2. Dates of survey: 1 November 1945 through 1 February 1946.
This volume presents the US's assessment of Japanese intelligence operations and effectiveness.

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