Word: nisei
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nisei Troops...
Since before Pearl Harbor I have served with troops from all parts of America, including men of German, Italian and Japanese extraction. . . . Nisei Japanese have these qualities which make them splendid soldiers, worthy of the uniform they wear...
...would contend that all Nisei soldiers have each of these qualities. Naturally, there are good and bad among them, but the good predominate. When the war is over, we shall find decorations on the breasts of many of them. In the meantime, let's show some semblance of fair play toward all Japanese-Americans who would prefer to be accepted as fellow Americans. !amp Savage, Minn...
Colonel Karl Robin Bendetsen last March began evacuating 110,599 Japanese and Nisei from a 150-mile West Coast strip to 16 temporary assembly centers in Washington, Oregon, California, Arizona. This month he finished his seven-day-a-week job. He had placed all his charges in the care of the civilian War Relocation Authority in ten huge, permanent projects in California, Arizona, Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, Arkansas...
Sore-muscled Idahoans looked longingly toward California, where migrant Mexicans, Koreans and Filipinos who used to come to Idaho are staying contentedly on good pay, doing less back-breaking work, filling the Nisei's jobs...