U.S. Army recruiters enter the internment camps seeking volunteers for an entirely Japanese-American combat unit in Europe (the 442nd RCT), and for military intelligence linguists who can interrogate prisoners, translate and decode Japanese language documents in the jungles of the Asia Pacific theaters of war.

"...Liberators abroad, Prisoners at Home..." (100th Battalion and 442nd Regimental Combat Team)

"...Interrogating an enemy who speaks the same language and has the same face as me..." (Japanese American Military Intelligence Service combat linguists serving in Asia/Pacific Theater)

Hawaiian Nisei, the 100th Battalion are sent to their first campaign in Africa as combat infantrymen.