Washington PostC. Doris Hoshide, 99, who became a translator for the Army Map Service after she was released from a World War II-era internment camp for Japanese Americans, died of respiratory failure May 12 at Shady Grove Adventist Hospital in Rockville.
Mrs. Hoshide was among more than 120,000 Americans of Japanese descent who were incarcerated in camps during the war, ostensibly because they were considered a threat to national security. In 1942, she was sent to Heart Mountain Relocation Center in north-central Wyoming, where she worked as an elementary school teacher.
The following year, she was allowed to leave Heart Mountain to work in Cleveland for the Army Map Service. After the war, she moved to the agency's Washington headquarters and became a geographic research specialist. She transferred to the Defense Intelligence Agency in 1961 and retired in 1972.
