This story is about a reunion of the Texas First Battalion with the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. The two units first met during the bloody WWII battle in the Vosges Mountains. The First Battalion’s 217 members were completely surrounded when the segregated Japanese American 442nd RCT was sent in on a suicide rescue mission.
814 casualties.
For 217 men.
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November 10, 2009 at 1:58 pm
Restructure!
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November 10, 2009 at 4:35 pm
Kim
How many Japanese-American soldiers equal one white American soldier? About 4 in this case…so does that make a Japanese-American 1/4 of a person? :/
November 10, 2009 at 7:33 pm
js718
Tortolano said. “In some ways they were treated as second-class citizens. But they proved they were true Americans.”
this quote is pretty angering, but if youre reading this blog you probably already know why. and it was a good thing those guys in the first were white or i guess they’d have been left for dead
November 10, 2009 at 11:55 pm
jlie
I burned up reading this. It makes me so angry.
November 11, 2009 at 12:34 am
Lori
I have long heard that the segregated Nisei regiment was the most decorated of any in the US armed forces in WWII, most of them with family in the internment camps.