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President Truman and other dignitaries saluting the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. The 100th/442nd Regimental Combat Team is the most decorated unit for its size and length of service in the history of American warfare. [4] [71] The 4,000 men who initially came in April 1943 had to be replaced nearly 2.5 times. In total, about 10,000 men served ...
Across the top of the face is the motto: "Go For Broke" and below that are the insignia of the segregated, all-Nisei Army units: the famed 100th Infantry Battalion and 442nd Regimental Combat Team, as well as lesser-known nisei units, the Military Intelligence Service (MIS), 522nd Field Artillery Battalion, 232nd Combat Engineer Company, and ...
The 100th/442nd Regimental Combat Team would become the most decorated unit of the war for its size and length of service. The 100th Infantry Battalion and the 442nd together earned seven Presidential Unit Citations, two Meritorious Service Plaques, 36 Army Commendation Medals, and 87 Division Commendations.
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 ...
Apr. 8—The gratitude and aloha that grew between citizens of Bruyeres, France, and the veterans of the legendary 442nd Regimental Combat Team is still going strong 80 years after the Hawaii-born ...
Monument to the men of the 100th Battalion, 442nd Regimental Combat Team. The largest remaining structure is the high school gymnasium/auditorium, which was added to and was in service with the local school [which?] before it closed in July 2004. The tallest structure is the smokestack from the hospital incinerator.
Ito was in auto mechanic school when he was drafted into the military in 1940, two years before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.He worked as a mechanic, but was eventually assigned to the all Japanese-American 442nd Regimental Combat Team, which became the most decorated unit for its size and length of service in the U.S. Army during World War II.
Because of its superior training record, FDR authorized the formation of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team (RCT) in January 1943 when 10,000 men from Hawaii signed up with eventually 2,686 being chosen along with 1,500 from the mainland. [12]