| Summary: | Uncommon Courage: Patriotism and Civil Liberties explores the personal histories of second generation Japanese Americans who served in the U.S. Army' Military Intelligence Service (MIS) during World War II as Japanese language specialists in the Pacific, and after the War during the Occupation of Japan. This documentary examines the motives and actions and uncommon courage of these soldiers whose faith in the future of America fueled the desire to prove themselves defending their country while many of their families and friends were imprisoned in isolated incarceration camps, stripped of their civil liberties. Uncommon Courage uses archival footage, historical photographs and current interviews to tell its story. It is divided into ten segments: Overview, Training, Forced Evacuation, Combat, Cave Flushing, Interrogation, Translation, Brothers The Occupation, and the Epilogue. The Overview and Epilogue give historical perspective on the MIS. The other eight segments tell what the soldiers did or faced. The historical period that Uncommon Courage covers is approximately from 1941 to 2000.
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