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Armed with Language

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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Armed with Language

Premiered On: 11/11/2021

A military intelligence school in Minnesota trained more than 6,000 Japanese Americans to be translators, interrogators and Japanese military specialists during World War II.

  • Sunday May 17, 2026 9:00 pm ET on KET2
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