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President Truman and other dignitaries saluting the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. The 100th/442nd Regimental Combat Team is the most decorated unit for its size and length of service in the history of American warfare. [4] [68] The 4,000 men who initially came in April 1943 had to be replaced nearly 2.5 times. In total, about 10,000 men served ...
Go For Broke! is a 1951 black-and-white war film directed by Robert Pirosh, [2] produced by Dore Schary and starring Van Johnson and six veterans of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. The film co-stars Henry Nakamura, Warner Anderson, and Don Haggerty in its large cast.
Only the Brave is a 2006 independent film about the 100th Infantry Battalion/442nd Regimental Combat Team, a segregated World War II fighting unit primarily made up of "Nisei" Japanese Americans, which for its size and length of service became the most decorated unit in U.S. military history.
Munemori was a private first class in the United States Army, in Company A, 100th Infantry Battalion, 442nd Regimental Combat Team. [5] For his actions, when the 442nd was part of the 92d Infantry Division, he was the only Japanese American to be awarded the Medal of Honor during or immediately after World War II. [6]
A regimental combat team (RCT) is a provisional major infantry unit which has seen use by branches of the United States Armed Forces.It is formed by augmenting a regular infantry regiment with smaller combat, combat support and combat service support units.
He gained a reputation after writing the script for the 1949 film Battleground, about the American 101st Airborne Division paratroopers’ defense of Bastogne, then writing and directing Go for Broke!, a 1951 war film about the famed 442nd Regimental Combat Team. Soon after Hell Is for Heroes, he created the World War II TV series Combat!.
The Varsity Victory Volunteers (Japanese: 大学勝利奉仕団, [3] [4] Daigaku Shōri Hōshidan) was a civilian sapper unit composed of Japanese-Americans from Hawaii.The VVV was a major stepping stone in the creation of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, which would end up becoming the most decorated regiment in United States armed forces history.
"Go For Broke", the unit motto of the US Army's historic 442nd Regimental Combat Team and subsequent use as a rallying cry for the Japanese-American community; Go For Broke, an unlicensed variant on the game Monopoly