This is great. Emphasis on METO very relevant. Profile congruity with Nagell stunning. Military intelligence remains unexplored territory. Think Colonel Pash.
Very interesting about Ito! Here's his findagrave. He had been an internee at Manzanar Conc. Camp in CA before joining the Army in '44. I put a clipping and photos on his memorial. He graduated from Roosevelt HS in Los Angeles in '42. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/141671030/chester_hiroshi_ito
I have some more info about Chester H. Ito. He's in a list of Army Japanese language/culture trainees in the "Military Intelligence Service Language School Registry 1941-46" He was a student at Ft. Snelling (MN) language school in July 1945, according to a list of students available online. I had never heard of Ft. Snelling but it was the forerunner of the Monterey Language School, now known as the Defense Language Institute : "Based at Fort Snelling, Minnesota, from August 1944 to October 1946, the Military Intelligence Service Language School (MISLS) served the U.S. Army by providing this knowledge of the Japanese. Though far from the battlefields of World War II, Fort Snelling produced trained, educated, and battle-ready translators and code breakers for the war effort in the Pacific Theater." In establishing the school they had to search for a location far away from the West Coast where anti-Japanese sentiment was strong. After being rejected by several midwestern states, the Gov of MN accepted the school. And Wiki says: "After the war, graduates of the language school translated and worked as interpreters at war crimes tribunals and served myriad roles in the occupation of Japan"
This is great. Emphasis on METO very relevant. Profile congruity with Nagell stunning. Military intelligence remains unexplored territory. Think Colonel Pash.
Very interesting about Ito! Here's his findagrave. He had been an internee at Manzanar Conc. Camp in CA before joining the Army in '44. I put a clipping and photos on his memorial. He graduated from Roosevelt HS in Los Angeles in '42. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/141671030/chester_hiroshi_ito
Finally found photos of him. He graduated from Roosevelt HS in L.A. in '42. See his findagrave.
I have some more info about Chester H. Ito. He's in a list of Army Japanese language/culture trainees in the "Military Intelligence Service Language School Registry 1941-46" He was a student at Ft. Snelling (MN) language school in July 1945, according to a list of students available online. I had never heard of Ft. Snelling but it was the forerunner of the Monterey Language School, now known as the Defense Language Institute : "Based at Fort Snelling, Minnesota, from August 1944 to October 1946, the Military Intelligence Service Language School (MISLS) served the U.S. Army by providing this knowledge of the Japanese. Though far from the battlefields of World War II, Fort Snelling produced trained, educated, and battle-ready translators and code breakers for the war effort in the Pacific Theater." In establishing the school they had to search for a location far away from the West Coast where anti-Japanese sentiment was strong. After being rejected by several midwestern states, the Gov of MN accepted the school. And Wiki says: "After the war, graduates of the language school translated and worked as interpreters at war crimes tribunals and served myriad roles in the occupation of Japan"