Milton Zaslow |
Milton Zaslow [2004] | World War II, 1939-1946
Army
Military Intelligence
Hawaii; Mariana Islands; Okinawa Island (Ryukyu Islands); Japan; Pacific Theater
Captain
New York, 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.
|
|