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Minnesota was home to a Japanese Language school during WWII that trained thousands.
Minnesota was home to a little-known military intelligence school during WWII that trained Japanese Americans be to translators. Primarily recruited from concentration camps on the West Coast, these men and women, served while many of their families remained imprisoned. For their efforts it is said that they "shortened the Pacific War by two years and saved possibly a million American lives."
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Minnesota Experience is a local public television program presented by Twin Cities PBS
Armed With Language | Preview
Preview: Season 3 Episode 15 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
Minnesota was home to a little-known military intelligence school during WWII that trained Japanese Americans be to translators. Primarily recruited from concentration camps on the West Coast, these men and women, served while many of their families remained imprisoned. For their efforts it is said that they "shortened the Pacific War by two years and saved possibly a million American lives."
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