There was at least one Nisei , U. Army Air Forces Technical Sergeant Ben Kuroki , who participated initially in 35 missions as a dorsal turret gunner over Europe, followed by 28 bombing missions over mainland Japan and other locations in the Pacific Theater. He spent 3 months as a German prisoner-of-war after his B17 was shot down on a bombing mission near Vienna, Austria. In August , the language school was moved again to Fort Snelling.
At the end of the war, MIS linguists had translated 18, enemy documents, created 16, propaganda leaflets and interrogated over 10, Japanese POWs. However, MIS servicemen were present at every major battle against Japanese forces, and those who served in combat faced extremely dangerous and difficult conditions, sometimes coming under friendly fire from U. This information led to Allied victories at the Battle of the Philippine Sea , in which the Japanese lost most of their aircraft carrier planes, and the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
An MIS radio operator intercepted a message describing Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto 's flight plans, which led to P Lightning fighter planes shooting down his plane over the Solomon Islands. Like their male counterparts, Nisei women were at first prohibited from serving in the U. Because their number was relatively small, the Nisei WACs were not restricted to a segregated corps, but instead were spread out and served alongside other ethnic groups.
The idea of female auxiliary service was still new at this time the Women's Army Corps was only nine months old when it opened its ranks to Nisei volunteers , and these women were most often assigned to clerical duties or other "women's work. The Nisei WACs faced another difficulty in that they were expected to translate Japanese military documents; even those who were fluent in Japanese struggled to understand the military language, and eventually some were sent to the Military Intelligence Language School for training.
The nation's highest award for combat valor, the Medal of Honor , was conferred upon one Nisei during the war, Sadao Munemori , after he sacrificed his life to save his fellow soldiers. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. United States Air Force portal. Japanese American Veterans Association. Retrieved 21 January Archived from the original on June 3, Retrieved 6 June Retrieved 30 October The Men of the th and the nd Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, , p Retrieved 31 October This exhibit was scheduled to run until November 19, From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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Masking Selves, Making Subjects. Archived from the original on November 4, Retrieved October 20, Archived from the original on November 25, In fact, the brutal death marches south had already begun on April Jewish prisoners from the outer Dachau camps were marched to Dachau, and then 70 miles south. Many of the Jewish marchers weighed less than 80 pounds. Shivering in their tattered striped uniforms, the "skeletons" marched 10 to 15 hours a day, passing more than a dozen Bavarian towns.
If they stopped or fell behind, the SS guards shot them and left their corpses along the road. Thousands died from exposure, exhaustion, and starvation. On May 2, the death march was outside Waakirchen, Germany, near the Austrian border, when the nd came across the marchers. That day, soldiers from the nd were patrolling near Waakirchen.
The Nisei saw an open field with several hundred "lumps in the snow". When the soldiers looked closer they realized the "lumps" were people. Some were dead from exposure. The nd discovered hundreds of prisoners with black and white prison garb, shaven heads, sunken eyes, and hollowed cheeks. Some roamed aimlessly around the countryside. Some were too weak to move. All were severely malnourished. One soldier gave a starving Jewish prisoner a candy bar, but his system couldn't handle solid food.
Then the Americans were told not to give food to the prisoners because it could do them more harm than good. For the next three days, the Nisei helped the prisoners to shelter and tended to their needs as best as they could. They carried the survivors into warm houses and barns.
The soldiers gave them blankets, water and tiny bits of food to ease them back from starvation. The soldiers left Waakirchen on May 4, still deeply disturbed by the harrowing scenes of the Jewish prisoners. Poindexter, was more measured. He provided statistics indicating that 34 percent of the islands' population was aliens, or citizens of Japanese descent.
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Retrieved from " https: Views Read Edit View history. On February 23, , Emmons gave his blessing to the formation of the Varsity Victory Volunteers , an all-Nisei labor battalion. For those serving on the mainland, individual commanders were given the option of discharging Japanese American soldiers or assigning them to "harmless duties. In the meantime, Selective Service stopped accepting Nisei in early on the grounds that they were "not acceptable to the armed forces because of nationality or ancestry.
While the th Infantry Battalion continued to train at Camp McCoy, a debate about whether to allow Nisei to serve in the military was taking place. A group called the Board of Military Utilization of U. Citizens of Japanese Ancestry that was made up of five colonels and War Relocation Authority director Dillon Myer was formed in June of to explore that question, and three months later, issued a report against the formation of a Japanese American unit "because of the universal distrust in which they are held.
Roosevelt calling for a Nisei fighting unit as a propaganda weapon to counter Japanese claims of American racism. Assistant Secretary of War John McCloy , one of the architects of the mass incarceration, also supported the idea, and the War Department came to support the idea. On February 1, , President Roosevelt announced the formation of the nd Regimental Combat Team, an all-Japanese American unit, albeit with white officers. While the th Battalion continued its training at Camp Shelby in Mississippi and the Military Intelligence Service Language School began to send trained linguists to the battlefields of the Pacific, the call went out for volunteers for the nd.
The initial goal was for 3, volunteers from the continental U. It soon became apparent that those quotas were reversed: But in Hawai'i, where there was no mass incarceration, more than 10, Nisei stepped forward. Of these, 2, were accepted. They were sent off at a memorable farewell ceremony on March 28, , at 'Iolani Palace attended by a crowd of some 15, people. The new recruits were sent to Camp Shelby, Mississippi for basic training. At Camp Shelby, the mainland kotonks and the Hawaii-born Buddhaheads fought over misperceptions and misunderstandings but eventually bonded after a trip to one of the nearby incarceration camps in Arkansas.
In August, , the th shipped out, landing in North Africa and plunging into battle in Salerno, Italy, where the first casualties were suffered. The th were involved in campaigns at Cassino and the Anzio Campaign leading to the Allied capture of Rome. In June of , the nd arrived in Europe, and the battle tested th became its first battalion. Despite the sterling war record the th and later the nd were compiling in Europe, the navy, marine corps, and air force refused to take Japanese Americans for the most part, though there a few individual exceptions.
In addition to the well publicized exploits of Kuroki and the th and nd, there were others. In the Pacific, the Nisei linguists of the Military Intelligence Service endured great risk—from the enemy as well as from friendly fire—to perform vital translation and interpretation tasks. On the home front, groups like the th Engineer Construction Battalion performed vital construction tasks. By the middle of , Nisei women has been deemed eligible for the Women's Army Corps , and Nisei women were inducted beginning in November. A number of the prewar inductees—collectively known as military resisters —became frustrated at the discriminatory treatment they faced in the army while their families were sent to American concentration camps.
While most of the prewar inductees eventually joined the nd, a significant number refused combat training—with some even attempting to renounce their U. In March of , the nd Field Artillery Battalion was detached from the nd, becoming a roving battalion. In the spring of , the nd took part in the liberation of one of the subordinate slave labor camps of Dachau, while the nd was engaged in the Gothic Line and Po Valley Campaign.
As the war came to an end, Nisei in the MIS took part in the surrender of Japan and in the subsequent occupation. By the end of the war, the nd including the th prior to becoming part of the it received 9, Purple Hearts, 8 Presidential Unit Citations, Silver Stars, and 52 Distinguished Service Crosses among many other decorations.
In the immediate aftermath of the war, only one member of nd received the Medal of Honor , America's highest military honor. However a review in the s resulted in 20 additional Medals of Honors being awarded in