0:00 - Introduction and opening statement / Family history / Character of father and mother

Play segmentSegment link

Partial Transcript:

Segment Synopsis:

Keywords: Army ROTC; Camp LeJeune; family; Marine Crops; siblings

Subjects:

3:18 - Family's aspirations for James McNaughton / Personal interest in history and figuring out how a country gets itself into problems

Play segmentSegment link

Partial Transcript:

Segment Synopsis:

Keywords: academics; career; foreign policy; government; history; politics

Subjects:

4:39 - What awakened interest in history / Personal love of history

Play segmentSegment link

Partial Transcript:

Segment Synopsis:

Keywords: clash of ideas; inspirations; passions; teacher; US history

Subjects:

7:24 - How to get young people to understand history

Play segmentSegment link

Partial Transcript:

Segment Synopsis:

Keywords: challenges; choices; high school; history; individuals; Japanese Americans

Subjects:

10:18 - Personal education and employment with the US government

Play segmentSegment link

Partial Transcript:

Segment Synopsis:

Keywords: Defense Language Institute; Germany; graduate school; history; John Aiso; John Hopkins University; Nisei veterans; political science; ROTC

Subjects:

15:35 - Progression with learning about the WWII Nisei veterans and writing the Military Intelligence Service Language School official history

Play segmentSegment link

Partial Transcript:

Segment Synopsis:

Keywords: mentoring; Military Intelligence Service Language School; Nisei; official history; paper; questions; writing

Subjects:

21:34 - The reason why James McNaughton was picked to write the official history / Research on veterans stories

Play segmentSegment link

Partial Transcript:

Segment Synopsis:

Keywords: book; documents; journalist; letters; Military Intelligence Service; Nisei veterans; research materials; Yankee Samurai

Subjects:

24:17 - Primary duties at the Defense Language Institute school / The reasons for writing an official history on the Military Intelligence Service Language School

Play segmentSegment link

Partial Transcript:

Segment Synopsis:

Keywords: annual command history; civilian historians; discrimination in the military; historical perspective; language skills; lessons; Nisei; occupation

Subjects:

31:02 - Example of the Navajo code talkers / History about building the Japanese language school

Play segmentSegment link

Partial Transcript:

Segment Synopsis:

Keywords: code; draft; intelligence officers; language; linguists; Navajo; Nisei; training program

Subjects:

40:10 - The first few graduate classes of the Japanese Language School shipping out / Educating front line troops about the value of intelligence during the early war years

Play segmentSegment link

Partial Transcript:

Segment Synopsis:

Keywords: captured documents; investigative work; Japanese American soldiers; logistics; Nisei soldiers; POW; proving themselves; valuable intelligence

Subjects:

49:19 - The evolving nature of the Japanese Language School through the early years of the war

Play segmentSegment link

Partial Transcript:

Segment Synopsis:

Keywords: captured documents; current materials; Issei; letters; Military Intelligence Service Language School; newspapers; Nisei soldiers; textbooks

Subjects:

Search This Index
SearchClear