Camp Savage

Camp Savage is the former site of the U.S. Military Intelligence Service language school operating during World War II.

The purpose of the school was to teach the Japanese language to military personnel and civilians involved in the war effort.

[3][4] Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, anti-Japanese sentiment pushed President Roosevelt to issue Executive Order 9066, forcing the removal of anyone with as little as 1/16th Japanese ancestry from the West Coast of the United States.

Minnesota's Governor Harold Stassen offered up Camp Savage, a former Works Progress Administration facility to host the MIS Language School.

What began as an experimental military intelligence language-training program launched on a budget of $2,000 eventually became the forerunner of the Defense Language Institute for the tens of thousands of linguists who serve American interests throughout the world.