Military Intelligence Service (United States)
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The Military Intelligence Service was a World War II U.S. military unit consisting of two branches, the Japanese American unit and the German-Austrian unit based at Camp Ritchie, best known as the "Ritchie Boys". The unit described here was primarily composed of Nisei who were trained as linguists. Graduates of the MIS language school (MISLS) were attached to other military units to provide translation, interpretation, and interrogation services.
Military Intelligence Service (United States)
The inaugural MISLS class at the Presidio of San Francisco in 1942
MIS interrogators Phil Ishio and Arthur Ushiro question a prisoner taken in the Buna campaign
Brig Gen Frank Merrill, commander of "Merrill's Marauders," poses with Herbert Miyasaki and Akiji Yoshimura.
Operation Vengeance
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Operation Vengeance was the American military operation to kill Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto of the Imperial Japanese Navy on 18 April 1943 during the Solomon Islands campaign in the Pacific Theater of World War II. Yamamoto, commander of the Combined Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy, was killed near Bougainville Island when his transport aircraft was shot down by United States Army Air Forces fighter aircraft operating from Kukum Field on Guadalcanal.
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto saluting Japanese naval pilots at Rabaul, hours before his death
P-38G Lightnings were the aircraft chosen to carry out the mission.
339th Fighter Squadron personnel of the mission. Back row (l to r): Ames, Graebner, Lanphier, Goerke, Jacobson, Stratton, Long, Anglin. Front row (l to r): Smith, Canning, Holmes, Barber, Mitchell, Kittel, Whitakker. Not pictured: Hine (MIA).
Yamamoto's ashes return to Japan at Kisarazu aboard battleship Musashi on May 23, 1943