"They decided America was their country and they wanted to fight for it and improve their reduced position by virtue of their service." (Video Interview, 11:47)
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Milton Zaslow
Milton Zaslow [2004]
War: World War, 1939-1945 Branch: Army Unit: Military Intelligence Service Location: Hawaii; Mariana Islands; Okinawa Island (Ryukyu Islands); Japan; Pacific Theater Rank: Captain Place of Birth: NY
After taking an intensive college course in Japanese in 1942, Milton Zaslow found himself in charge of Japanese-American soldiers translating captured documents in hopes of gaining a strategic edge in the intense fighting in the Pacific Theater. In reading his men's mail for censorship purposes, Zaslow was touched by an irony: those with families in the internment camps back in the States were writing letters to boost the morale of their loved ones, instead of the other way around.