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"All of us can't stay in the [internment] camps until the end of the war. Some of us have to go to the front. Our record on the battlefield will determine when you will return and how you will be treated. I don't know if I'll make it back." Technical Sergeant Abraham Ohama, Company "F", 442nd RCT, Killed in Action 10/20/1944 "They were superb! That word correctly describes it: superb! They took terrific casualties. They showed rare courage and tremendous fighting spirit. Not too much can be said of t
Introduction The 442nd Regimental Combat Team was a highly decorated infantry regiment in the United States Army comprised of Americans of Japanese ancestry. The 442nd fought in Italy and France during World War II against the German Army of Hitler's Third Reich.
Upon returning to the United States on July 3,1946, the War Department issued a press release with the following headline: HIGH TRIBUTE TO BE PAID NISEI COMBAT TEAM UPON RETURN ON 4TH OF JULY FOR INACTIVATION