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The 442nd Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment of the United States Army.The regiment including the 100th Infantry Battalion is best known as the most decorated in U.S. military history, [4] and as a fighting unit composed almost entirely of second-generation American soldiers of Japanese ancestry who fought in World War II.
In June 1943, Miller was named Executive Officer of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. The team included the 442d Infantry Regiment, the 522d Field Artillery Battalion, the 232d Combat Engineer Company, the 206th Army Ground Forces Band and the 100th Infantry Battalion from Hawaii's National Guard.
Roughly 18,000 of these Nisei — or second-generation Japanese Americans — soldiers formed the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, which would become the most decorated military unit for its size and ...
Kashino joined the United States Army in 1943, joining a large number of Japanese Americans in the 442nd Infantry Regiment. [3] He was deployed to France, where he participated in the liberation of Bruyères from the Nazi regime. [3] He later aided in the attempted rescue of the Lost Battalion. [3]
Munemori was a private first class in the United States Army, in Company A, 100th Infantry Battalion, 442nd Regimental Combat Team. [5] For his actions, when the 442nd was part of the 92d Infantry Division, he was the only Japanese American to be awarded the Medal of Honor during or immediately after World War II. [6]
In March 1943, Hajiro volunteered to be part of the Army's all-Nisei 442nd Regimental Combat Team. [6] The 442nd was mostly made up of second-generation Americans citizens of Japanese descent from Hawaii and the mainland. [7] The unit was sent to Europe and in May 1944 fought the Germans in Italy, north of Rome. From there the 442nd was ...
The 100th infantry battalion and 442nd regimental combat team, fighting in Europe, became the most highly decorated army unit for its size and length of service in American Military History. Japanese Americans in the Military Intelligence Service used their bilingual skills to help shorten the war in the Pacific and thus saved countless ...
Go For Broke! is a 1951 black-and-white war film directed by Robert Pirosh, [2] produced by Dore Schary and starring Van Johnson and six veterans of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. The film co-stars Henry Nakamura, Warner Anderson, and Don Haggerty in its large cast.