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Lt. Daniel Inouye was a Japanese-American who served during World War II. Ethnic minorities in the U.S. Armed Forces during World War II comprised about 13% of all military service members. All US citizens were equally subject to the draft , and all service members were subject to the same rate of pay.
Some of these early Africans, Caribbeans, and Black Americans ended their maritime careers and settled in Hawai'i. A number of them were successful musicians, business men, and respected royal government officials in the Kingdom of HawaiĘ»i. [5] One Black American was Anthony D. Allen (1774–1835) an ex-slave. He came to Hawaii in 1810 as a ...
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Natives and Exotics: World War II and Environment in the Southern Pacific. University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 978-0-8248-3265-0. Lindstrom, Lamont; White, Geoffrey Miles; Center, East-West (September 17, 1990). Island Encounters: Black and White Memories of the Pacific War. Smithsonian Institution Press. ISBN 978-0-87474-457-6.
The 372nd Infantry Regiment was a segregated African American regiment, nominally a part of the 93rd Division, that served in World War I under French Army command, and also in World War II. [2] In World War II the regiment was not attached to a division, and served in the continental United States ( CONUS ) and Hawaii. [ 1 ]
Three minute men" were patrons of a quasi-legal prostitution industry north of Hotel Street near Honolulu Harbor from December 1941 to September 1944 (World War II). After martial law was declared in Honolulu , local police corruption and regulations were superseded, and a price of three dollars was set by military authorities.
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