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Camp Ritchie also trained more than '''500''' Nisei (second-generation Japanese American) soldiers for document work connected with the Pacific war, including PACMIRS (Pacific Military Intelligence Research Section). '''Nisei women''' in the Military Intelligence Service likewise completed rigorous Japanese military-language training and were often assigned to PACMIRS at Camp Ritchie to work captured Japanese documents. Captured Japanese materials were studied at the camp; one well-known episode involves [[Yamane, Kazuo E. (30101877)|Kazuo E. Yamane]] identifying Japanese armory meeting notes among crates of documents from Saipan, which helped the War Department locate and strike armories. (See also the 2017 film ''Proof of Loyalty: Kazuo Yamane and the Nisei Soldiers of Hawaii''.) | Camp Ritchie also trained more than '''500''' Nisei (second-generation Japanese American) soldiers for document work connected with the Pacific war, including PACMIRS (Pacific Military Intelligence Research Section). '''Nisei women''' in the Military Intelligence Service likewise completed rigorous Japanese military-language training and were often assigned to PACMIRS at Camp Ritchie to work captured Japanese documents. Captured Japanese materials were studied at the camp; one well-known episode involves [[Yamane, Kazuo E. (30101877)|Kazuo E. Yamane]] identifying Japanese armory meeting notes among crates of documents from Saipan, which helped the War Department locate and strike armories. (See also the 2017 film ''Proof of Loyalty: Kazuo Yamane and the Nisei Soldiers of Hawaii''.) | ||
== Prisoners of war and the Hill Project == | == Prisoners of war and the Hill Project == | ||
During the war years (into 1947) Camp Ritchie also housed prisoner-of-war compounds. Detainees included German and Italian prisoners, among them men taken in the North African campaign. | During the war years (into 1947) Camp Ritchie also housed prisoner-of-war compounds. Detainees included German and Italian prisoners, among them men taken in the North African campaign. | ||