The Allied Translator and Interpreter Section (ATIS), also known as the Allied Translator and Interpreter Service or Allied Translator and Intelligence Service, was a joint Australian/American World War II intelligence agency which served as a centralized allied intelligence unit for the translation of intercepted Japanese communications, interrogations and negotiations in the Pacific Theater of Operations between September 1942 and December 1945. During the last few months of operation ATIS primarily focused on investigation of Japanese war crimes. The section was officially disbanded on April 30, 1946.
Staff of the Allied Translator and Interpreter Section in 1943. ATIS Coordinator Colonel Sidney Mashbir is front 2nd from the left.
An Allied Translator and Interpreter Section "scanning conference". An American Nisei scans a captured document while Mashbir and representatives of several arms and services (including a Chinese General) look on and listen.
Charles A. Willoughby
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Charles Andrew Willoughby was a major general in the U.S. Army who was General of the Army Douglas MacArthur's chief of military intelligence during World War II and the Korean War.
Willoughby (left) confers with Lieutenant General Matthew B. Ridgway (center) and CIA Director Walter B. Smith (right) in Korea In mid-January 1951
Grave in Arlington National Cemetery