Near Velletri, Italy, Japanese-Americans of the 100th Infantry Battalion, 34th Division advance along a dusty road. May 28, 1944

Source: National Archives (111-SC-186637)

Bundled Japanese-American soldiers of the 442nd RCT gather in front of a tent pitched in a snowy, wooded area in France. November 13, 1944

Source: National Archives (111-SC-341438)

Japanese-American soldiers of the 442nd RCT, 2nd Battalion. November 11, 1944

Source: National Archives (111-SC-196516)

Members of the 442nd RCT, 100th Infantry Battalion on the chow line. Charmois area, France, October 1944.

Source: National Archives (111-SC-340904)

Japanese-American soldiers of Battery A, 522nd Field Artillery, 442nd RCT prepare shells. France, November 9, 1944.

Source: National Archives (111-SC-340947)

Major General John E. Dahlquist. 36th Division. March 1945. He ordered the 442nd to save the Lost Battalion.

Source: National Archives (111-SC-204931)

Japanese-American soldiers of the 442nd RCT, 2nd Battalion on a muddy road in the Chambois Sector of France. October 1944.

Source: National Archives (111-SC-253983)

Soldier of the 141st Infantry Regiment -- the lost battalion -- rests after being rescued by the 442nd RCT in France. October 31, 1944.

Source: National Archives (111-SC-196052)

Japanese-American soldiers of the 442nd RCT advance up a steep hillside in France. November 4, 1944.

Source: National Archives (111-SC-195666)

Front line infantrymen of the lost battalion, 141st Infantry Regiment relax around a camp fire after being rescued by 442nd RCT in France. October 31, 1944.

Source: National Archives (111-SC-196053)

The Alhambra Theatre in Sacramento.

Source: Sacramento Archives and Museum Collection Center (2001/ x-03/ 007)

Asako Maida Tukuno was born in 1923 in Oakland, grew up in an ethnically mixed neighborhood in Richmond, California. Her parents, Japanese immigrants, ran a successful flower nursery. She was a freshman at Berkeley in 1941 when Pearl Harbor was attacked. Her parents were forced to leave the West Coast . . .

Daniel Inouye, the son of a Japanese immigrant, was born in Hawaii, September 7, 1924. He was a seventeen year old high school senior on December 7, 1941, and witnessed first hand the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. As a Red Cross volunteer he helped tend to the many civilian . . .

A trip to an internment camp changed his opinion of mainland Japanese Americans.

Japanese-Americans of the 100th Infantry Battalion after 16 days of fighting for control of Leghorn, Italy. July 15, 1944.

Source: National Archives (111-SC-340923)

Infantrymen grab sleep where they can. Normandy, France, July 1944.

Source: National Archives (111-SC-191444)

Bill Mauldin worked for Stars and Stripes during the war. His cartoons were viewed by GIs serving in Europe.

Source: Copyright 1945 by Bill Mauldin. Displayed courtesy of the William Mauldin Estate.

Susumu Satow and Asako Tokuno recall life in the internment camps.

At a newstand, a headline from the San Francisco Examiner reads: "Ouster Of All Japs In California Near!"

Source: National Archives (210-G1-A-36)

The Japanese-American owner of a grocery store in Oakland, CA, closed following evacuation orders hung a sign reading "I AM AN AMERICAN" the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor. April 1942.

Source: National Archives (WC-0772)