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Color of Honor: The Japanese American soldier in WWII
Historical Profiles, Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz
Near Normal Man
Uncommon Courage: Patriotism and Civil Liberties
For the first time ever, Uncommon Courage: Patriotism and Civil Liberties tells the story of the Military Intelligence Service (MIS) during World War II and the Occupation of Japan. Thousands of MIS soldiers, mostly Japanese American, fought for the United States in the Pacific in a unique role, using language as...
For the first time ever, Uncommon Courage: Patriotism and Civil Liberties tells the story of the Military Intelligence Service (MIS) during World War II and the Occupation of Japan. Thousands of MIS soldiers, mostly Japanese American, fought for the United States in the Pacific in a unique role, using language as their weapon. They interrogated Japanese prisoners, translated documents, intercepted communications, and infiltrated enemy lines. Some...
For the first time ever, Uncommon Courage: Patriotism and Civil Liberties tells the story of the Military Intelligence Service (MIS) during World War II and the Occupation of Japan. Thousands of MIS soldiers, mostly Japanese American, fought for the United States in the Pacific in a unique role, using language as their weapon. They interrogated Japanese prisoners, translated documents, intercepted communications, and infiltrated enemy lines. Some of these MIS soldiers volunteered from those camps. Many found themselves fighting against their own brothers and relatives.
Ironically, at the same time, many of their families back home were locked behind barbed wire in isolated imprisonment camps, stripped of their civil rights, their allegiance questioned.
A dramatic and moving personal saga, these soldiers showed Uncommon Courage as they fought to overcome fear, discrimination, and racial prejudice in the land of their birth.
Theirs is an American story.
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Uncommon Courage: Patriotism and Civil Liberties
Uncommon Courage: Patriotism and Civil Liberties explores the personal histories of second generation Japanese Americans who served in the U.S. Army’ Military Intelligence Service (MIS) during World War II as Japanese language specialists in the Pacific, and after the War during the Occupation of Japan. This do...
Uncommon Courage: Patriotism and Civil Liberties explores the personal histories of second generation Japanese Americans who served in the U.S. Army’ Military Intelligence Service (MIS) during World War II as Japanese language specialists in the Pacific, and after the War during the Occupation of Japan. This documentary examines the motives and actions and uncommon courage of these soldiers whose faith in the future of America fueled the desir...
Uncommon Courage: Patriotism and Civil Liberties explores the personal histories of second generation Japanese Americans who served in the U.S. Army’ Military Intelligence Service (MIS) during World War II as Japanese language specialists in the Pacific, and after the War during the Occupation of Japan. This documentary examines the motives and actions and uncommon courage of these soldiers whose faith in the future of America fueled the desire to prove themselves defending their country while many of their families and friends were imprisoned in isolated incarceration camps, stripped of their civil liberties.
Uncommon Courage uses archival footage, historical photographs and current interviews to tell its story. It is divided into ten segments: Overview, Training, Forced Evacuation, Combat, Cave Flushing, Interrogation, Translation, Brothers The Occupation, and the Epilogue. The Overview and Epilogue give historical perspective on the MIS. The other eight segments tell what the soldiers did or faced. The historical period that Uncommon Courage covers is approximately from 1941 to 2000.
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