Word: nisei
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...Broke! (MGM) adds another laurel to one of the most decorated U.S. combat units of World War II,* the Nisei of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. Treated at first with taunts and suspicion, rankled by the knowledge that their families were herded into resettlement camps, the Nisei proved themselves both loyal Americans and superb fighting...
...Broke! (from the regimental motto, a piece of Hawaiian dice-shooting slang for "Shoot the works!") follows the outfit from a U.S. training camp into the heat of the Italian and French campaigns. It tells the story largely in terms of a Texas-proud lieutenant (Van Johnson) whose Nisei men gradually overcome his prejudice against them. At the climax, the 442nd's rescue of a trapped battalion of the 36th (Texas) Infantry Division in France's Vosges Mountains, even Johnson's diehard, Jap-hating buddy (Don Haggerty) takes the Nisei to his bosom...
Some 15,000 swim-happy fans fell tensely silent as the starter for the crucial 400-meter free-style event barked "Yoi [get set]!" Crouched alongside Marshall and Furuhashi were two other champion-caliber swimmers: the Hawaiian-born Nisei, Ford Konno, who had broken the world's 1,500-meter record the day before, and the U.S. Olympic ace, Jim McLane. They hit the water in unison...
...Imperial Plaza. In the crowd were U.S. soldiers, some of them Counter Intelligence Corps agents sent as observers. While a Communist speaker ranted against U.S. occupation, inflamed Communists in the audience noticed a Japanese policeman taking notes on the speech. A Communist snatched the notes away. A uniformed Nisei member of CIC, Corporal Henry Yamashita, tried to grab the notes back. Members of the crowd began to push Yamashita around and other U.S. soldiers went to his aid. One of them was knocked down, kicked in the belly and the mouth. When the melee was over five soldiers had been...
...Europe and Africa and winning a pair of D.F.C.s, Sergeant Kuroki came home-where he could have stayed, had he liked. Instead, he volunteered as a gunner on a B-29 in the Pacific theater, had to pull a few strings to get the job because he was a Nisei. In a bomber christened Honorable Sad Saki, Kuroki flew 28 missions more, including strikes on Tokyo and Yokohama ("my mother's home town"); he was the first Nisei to win a D.F.C. in the Pacific. Back home again, Kuroki assigned himself a "59th mission": a quiet, sense-making fight...