Secrets Revealed: The Presidio Project
Secrets Revealed: The Presidio Project reveals untold stories of Nisei former camp incarcerees, including military enlistees, at the historic site of the U.S. Army’s first Military Intelligence Service (MIS) Language School at the Presidio of San Francisco. Through these narratives, the difficult decisions faced by Japanese Americans and the impact of WWII incarceration are illuminated. In 1942, security concerns, wartime hysteria, and racial prejudice resulted in Executive Order 9066, which led to the wholesale incarceration of 120,000 U.S. citizens and immigrants of Japanese ancestry. Ironically, while Japanese American soldiers labored at their studies at the top-secret MIS Language School, officials at 4th Army Headquarters on the Presidio’s grounds planned and implemented the exclusion, mass removal, and internment of all Japanese Americans from the West Coast.