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Japanese Americans
After Pearl Harbor, Washington had ordered some 110,000 Japanese aliens and American citizens of Japanese descent, living along the West Coast, out of their homes and into ten internment camps. All Japanese-American men of draft age, except those already in the Armed forces, had been classified as enemy aliens, forbidden to serve their country. Then, in early 1943, Washington announced a new policy. Japanese-American men were now going to be permitted to form a special segregated outfit, the 442nd Regimental Combat Team.
After Pearl Harbor, Washington had ordered some 110,000 Japanese aliens and American citizens of Japanese descent, living along the West Coast, out of their homes and into ten internment camps. All Japanese-American men of draft age, except those already in the Armed forces, had been classified as enemy aliens, forbidden to serve their country. Then, in early 1943, Washington announced a new policy. Japanese-American men were now going to be permitted to form a special segregated outfit, the 442nd Regimental Combat Team.
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Weary Japanese-American soldiers of the 100th Infantry Battalion -- Daniel Inouye's unit -- take a rest in Leghorn, Italy. July 19, 1944.
Source: National Archives (111-SC-192071)
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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)
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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)
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Japanese-American soldiers of the 442nd RCT, 2nd Battalion. November 11, 1944
Source: National Archives (111-SC-196516)
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Two Japanese-American color guard and color bearers of the 442nd RCT stand at attention while their citation is read for saving the lost battalion in France. November 12, 1944.
Source: National Archives (111-SC-196716)
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Members of the 442nd RCT, 100th Infantry Battalion on the chow line. Charmois area, France, October 1944.
Source: National Archives (111-SC-340904)
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Japanese-American soldiers of Battery A, 522nd Field Artillery, 442nd RCT prepare shells. France, November 9, 1944.
Source: National Archives (111-SC-340947)
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Major General John E. Dahlquist. 36th Division. March 1945. He ordered the 442nd to save the Lost Battalion.
Source: National Archives (111-SC-204931)
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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)
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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)
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Japanese-American infantrymen of the 442nd RCT run for cover from a German artillery shelling. Italy, April 4, 1945.
Source: National Archives (WC-1031)
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Japanese-American soldiers of the 442nd RCT advance up a steep hillside in France. November 4, 1944.
Source: National Archives (111-SC-195666)
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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)
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Japanese-American soldiers of Co. E, 442nd RCT train at Camp Shelby, MS. May 13, 1943. Daniel Inouye is in the right column, second from the front.
Source: National Archives (111-SC-176302)
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Barracks at the Granda Relocation Center in Amache, Colorado. Robert Kashiwagi was interred here at the start of the war.
Source: Library of Congress (LOT 10617, vol. 14)
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Shiro and Asako Tokuno on their wedding day. Minnesota, February 17, 1945.
Source: Asako Tokuno
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Asako Tokuno and her husband, Shiro. February 10, 1945.
Source: Asako Tokuno
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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 . . .
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Asako Tokuno, right, worked at the beauty parlor at Topaz Camp, where she was interned during the war.
Source: Asako Tokuno
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Asako Tokuno, after the war, in her family's nursery
Source: Asako Tokuno
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