[Japanophiles] Unlikely Liberators: The Men of the 100th and 442nd

[Trading Department]

Dear Japanophiles,

One story which always amazed my Japanese clients when we were out on  
the town in Tokyo was how the American all-Japanese units in WWII  
were the most decorated units in American military history.  A story  
I heard first hand from my uncle who fought under General Clark in  
Italy.  You could feel the astonishment and pride of their modern  
Samurai hearts to hear a former American Marine tell of his  
admiration for the Japanese Americans whose record in WWII is the  
pride of a nation.  Its quite the counterpoint to the shameful  
scandals and violence against women we've been seeing in Okinawa,  
which sickens me and embarrasses our nation so deeply.

"Unlikely Liberators is the action-filled story of the men of the  
100th Battalion and the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. Not trusted to  
fight in the Pacific, these sons of Japanese immigrants were sent  
instead to the European theater. In the eyes of their own government  
and the Europeans they liberated, they were an unlikely group of  
fighting men. They nevertheless engaged the enemy with astonishing  
heroism, winning battle after battle at Anzio, Salerno, Cassino, and  
in the Vosges Mountains. At the end of the war, the 100th and the  
442nd emerged as America's most decorated units. They provided ample  
evidence of their patriotism to a country that had questioned their  
loyalty."

Rolomail's new WWII and the Japanese series:

http://www.rolomail.com/cgi-bin/sanadd.pl?540



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