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Go for Broke: The Nisei Warriors of World War II Who Conquered Germany, Japan, and American Bigotry, Clearfield, Utah: American Legacy Media. ISBN 978-0-9796896-1-1 OCLC 141855086; Yenne, Bill. (2007). Rising Sons: The Japanese American GIs Who Fought for the United States in World War II. New York: Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-312-35464-0; Moulin ...
The 442nd Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment of the United States Army.The regiment including the 100th Infantry Battalion is best known as the most decorated in U.S. military history, [4] and as a fighting unit composed almost entirely of second-generation American soldiers of Japanese ancestry who fought in World War II.
In May 1997, the names of 251 Japanese Americans killed in the Korean War joined the 116 Vietnam era names on a set of black granite slabs perpendicular to the Vietnam set, while the list of over 800 World War II era names was added on another group of granite slabs across from the Korean names in February 2000.
Japanese American Memorial to Patriotism During World War II On February 19, 1942, 73 days after the United States entered World War II , President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066 which resulted in the removal of 120,000 Japanese American men, women and children from their homes in the western states and Hawaii.
Ben Kuroki (Japanese: 黒木 勉, [2] May 16, 1917 – September 1, 2015) was the only American of Japanese descent in the United States Army Air Forces to serve in combat operations in the Pacific theater of World War II. [3] He flew a total of 58 combat missions over Europe, North Africa, and Japan during World War II.
Don Troiani painting depicting Asian American soldiers of the Nisei Japanese-American U.S. Army 442nd Regimental Combat Team fighting in the Vosges mountains of Italy during World War II, where many received the Medal of Honor U.S. Army 442nd Regimental Combat Team marching in Chambois Sector, France, in late 1944 President Truman salutes the ...
Vincent Hichiro Okamoto (November 22, 1943 – September 27, 2020) was an American attorney, judge, author, and retired United States Army officer. An Army Ranger during the Vietnam War , he was the most highly decorated Japanese American to survive the war.
Many Japanese Americans served with great distinction during World War II in the American forces. Nebraska Nisei Ben Kuroki became a famous Japanese-American soldier of the war after he completed 30 missions as a gunner on B-24 Liberators with the 93rd Bombardment Group in Europe. When he returned to the US he was interviewed on radio and made ...