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...security-conscious Army officials, the Federal Government exiled more than 100,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans from their homes on the West Coast to internment camps in Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Idaho, Utah and Wyoming. Despite this humiliation, 30,000 Japanese Americans served in uniform, and the all-Nisei 442nd Regimental Combat Team and the 100th Battalion became the most decorated units in U.S. military history...
Terrible ironies haunt the history. Fourth of July celebrations were bravely held behind barbed wire, in the shadow of sentry towers. Parents wasting away in tar-paper camp shacks proudly displayed starred banners indicating that their sons were American soldiers. Nisei (second generation Japanese Americans) members of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, which fought gloriously in Europe, were sometimes required to have Caucasian escorts when they visited their interned families. (About 33,000 Japanese Americans served in the U.S. military during the war, some of them drafted right out of the camps.) After the war, many of the detainees found...
Astonishingly enough, many were not angry even then. The U.S. Army kept recruiting briskly at Tule Lake. Many volunteers from this and other camps went into the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, a Japanese-American fighting unit that served in Italy and France with extraordinary distinction. Indeed, the fear of the Japanese Americans' disloyalty ultimately proved groundless. During all of World War II, no Japanese American living within the U.S. was ever convicted of sabotage...
...Americans in dreary camps for as long as four years. They lost an estimated $400 million in confiscated property, earned no more than $19 a month in the camps. Although not a single Japanese-American was convicted during the war of spying, and many served in the famous Nisei 442nd Regimental Combat team, which won more decorations than any outfit in U.S. Army history for its exploits in Italy and France, the detainees were not released until just before the end of the war-and then with neither apologies nor abodes to ease their anguish. More than...
Pineapple Juice. Democrat Inouye has another sort of tradition. Born in a Honolulu slum, he enlisted in the famed Nisei 442nd Regimental Combat Team in 1943, won a battlefield commission and later a Distinguished Service Cross in Italy in a bloody action that cost him his right arm. A lawyer and a onetime (1954-58) majority leader of the territorial house of representatives, Inouye became Hawaii's first and only U.S. Representative in 1959 (the state will have two after this year). In Washington, Inouye has backed the Kennedy Administration all the way, taken enthusiastic care of Hawaii...