Story by Lori Stewart | U.S. Army Intelligence Center of Excellence | 07.19.2024
On 22 July 1944, the first contingent of the U.S. Army Observation Group, nicknamed the “Dixie Mission,” arrived in China. They were the first American personnel to establish relations with the Chinese Communist Party at its headquarters in Yan’an, Shaanxi Province in northwest China....
Story by Karen Iwamoto | U.S. Army Garrison Hawaii | 05.11.2017
SCHOFIELD BARRACKS — An exhibit at the Sgt. Yano Library shares the little-known account of how a group of Japanese-American Soldiers freed thousands of concentration camp survivors in southern Germany. “This exhibit is dedicated to remembrance. We are now in a national period of remembrance of the Holocaust; never let it happen again,” said Bill Wright, project manager for the Nisei......
Story by Patrick Bray | The Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center | 11.15.2016
The National Japanese American Historical Society, the Consul General of Japan in San Francisco, and the commandant of the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center, Col. Phil Deppert, gathered on Crissy Field at the Presidio of San Francisco Nov. 12 to honor Nisei Veterans and mark the 75th anniversary of the Military Intelligence Service, which began there in 1941....
Story by Patrick Bray | The Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center | 11.12.2016
Nisei celebrate 75 years of military legacy - The National Japanese American Historical Society, the Consul General of Japan in San Francisco, and the commandant of the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center, Col. Phil Deppert, gathered on Crissy Field at the Presidio of San Francisco Nov. 12 to honor Nisei Veterans and mark the 75th anniversary of the Military Intelligence......
Story by Staff Sgt. Mark Miranda | 7th Infantry Division | 09.20.2014
Soldiers from the 4th Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment and Japan Ground Self-Defense Force conducted a social event with the Nisei Veterans Committee Sept. 20 at the Seattle NVC Foundation. The soldiers traveled from Yakima Training Center to Seattle for the event, one of the last for Operation Rising Thunder 2013....
Story by Staff Sgt. Mark Miranda | 7th Infantry Division | 09.22.2013
Soldiers from the 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment and Japan Ground Self-Defense Force conducted a social event with the Nisei Veterans Committee Sept. 22 at the Seattle NVC Foundation....
Story by Sgt. Austan Owen | 5th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | 09.11.2013
Twelve years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks approximately 100 flag bearers marched onto Watkins Field at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., in solemn remembrance of those who died that day. Each organization raised their flags during a Massing of the Colors on Patriot Day not only to remember those that perished in the attack but also to pay tribute to all the veterans that have served......
Story by Petty Officer 1st Class Kim McLendon | Navy Public Affairs Support Element West | 11.09.2012
Sailors from Navy Operational Support Center Ventura County kick off Veterans Day celebrations by visiting Nisei World War II veterans at Nikkei Senior Gardens, Friday afternoon, Nov. 9. As part of the Spirit of ’45 event organized by VITAS Innovative Hospice Care and the Nikkei Senior Gardens to honor the life and history of the Nisei veterans of World War II....
