Word: nisei
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tokyo's smart Nippon Theater he was singing his latest song-a dialogue between a G.I. and a Japanese girl-when two Nisei from Allied Headquarters dropped...
...French propaganda has not been entirely successful. Last week French zone Austrians turned out to cheer and throw flowers at German P.O.W.s (guarded by U.S. Nisei) moving northward from Italy, where they were captured, to a new camp at Bavaria's Bad Aibling. Embarrassed French authorities ordered the prisoner convoys to move only at night in the future...
With the help of two other ex-G.I.s (onetime Navy Pilot Jack Hill, the 440-yard free-style champ and Sprinter Halo Hirose of the famed 100th Nisei Battalion) Ohio State swam off with the team championship. The Buckeyes won even though Navy Specialist 2/c Joe Verdeur, swimming for the Philadelphia Turner Club, set two new world breast stroke records in the 200-yards (2:19.5) and 200-meters...
...Tsukushi Mam, they gazed glumly at the panorama of defeat. On the pier was a delegation of U.S. Eighth Army personnel. As the sullen repatriates debarked, they were hustled to the customs shed. There, teams of doctors, officers and G.I.s (for the men) and nurses, WACs and female Nisei (for the women) stripped them, ripped their clothing open at the seams, paraded them before fluoroscopes...
...100th Infantry Battalion won more awards than any other unit of its size: two presidential unit citations, three Legion of Merit awards, 9 D.S.C.s, 44 Silver Stars, 31 Bronze Stars, more than 1,000 Purple Hearts. This battalion and the 442nd Infantry Regiment, also a Nisei outfit, had more than 9,000 casualties, no AWOLs but six men who jumped hospital to return to the front...