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=== Pacific === | === Pacific === | ||
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''.) In 1945 the camp also formed '''Mobile Intelligence Training Units''' (MITU) for Army Ground Forces redeployment training: small teams in which Nisei demonstrated Japanese squad tactics and took part in orientation plays (some teams included veterans of the 442nd Combat Team). See [[Nisei and Pacific#Mobile Intelligence Training Units (MITU), 1945|Nisei and Pacific]]. | ||
== Prisoners of war and the Hill Project == | == Prisoners of war and the Hill Project == | ||
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== Sources == | == Sources == | ||
* [https://www.fold3.com/image/291737678 Fold3 — A Typical Enemy Equipment Intelligence Service (EEIS Det. 9)] / [[:File: | * [[Nisei and Pacific#Mobile Intelligence Training Units (MITU), 1945|Nisei and Pacific — Mobile Intelligence Training Units]] | ||
* [[:File:MID_908_1945-07-24_Bissell_Weckerling_JA_soldiers_in_training.pdf|MID 908 / MITU memos, July 1945 (Bissell–Weckerling; Camp Ritchie Section IX; WRA)]] (NARA via JAVA packet) | |||
* [https://www.fold3.com/image/291737678 Fold3 — A Typical Enemy Equipment Intelligence Service (EEIS Det. 9)] / [[:File:A_Typical_Enemy_Equipment_Intelligence_Service_EEIS_Det_9.pdf|PDF on this wiki]] | |||
* [[The Stories/Passover at Camp Ritchie (1945)|Passover at Camp Ritchie (1945)]] (Fold3 / National Jewish Welfare Board–USO) | * [[The Stories/Passover at Camp Ritchie (1945)|Passover at Camp Ritchie (1945)]] (Fold3 / National Jewish Welfare Board–USO) | ||
* [[:File:Camp_Ritchie_list_of_directives.jpg|Camp Ritchie List of Directives (Pers. Sec. 214)]] (source uncertain) | * [[:File:Camp_Ritchie_list_of_directives.jpg|Camp Ritchie List of Directives (Pers. Sec. 214)]] (source uncertain) | ||
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* [[Introduction]] | * [[Introduction]] | ||
* [[The Stories]] | * [[The Stories]] | ||
* [[Nisei and Pacific]] | |||
* [[The Stories/Camp Ritchie Background|Camp Ritchie Background]] | * [[The Stories/Camp Ritchie Background|Camp Ritchie Background]] | ||
* [[The Stories/Life in Camp Ritchie|Life in Camp Ritchie]] | * [[The Stories/Life in Camp Ritchie|Life in Camp Ritchie]] | ||